- * hardware/firmware), the low-level driver uses this function to receive
- * the next beacon frame from the 802.11 code. The low-level is responsible
- * for calling this function before beacon data is needed (e.g., based on
- * hardware interrupt). Returned skb is used only once and low-level driver
- * is responsible for freeing it.
+ * hardware/firmware), the driver uses this function to get each beacon
+ * frame from mac80211 -- it is responsible for calling this function
+ * before the beacon is needed (e.g. based on hardware interrupt).
+ *
+ * If the beacon frames are generated by the device, then the driver
+ * must use the returned beacon as the template and change the TIM IE
+ * according to the current DTIM parameters/TIM bitmap.
+ *
+ * The driver is responsible for freeing the returned skb.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get_tim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
+ u16 *tim_offset, u16 *tim_length);
+
+/**
+ * ieee80211_beacon_get - beacon generation function
+ * @hw: pointer obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
+ * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from &struct ieee80211_if_init_conf.
+ *
+ * See ieee80211_beacon_get_tim().