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From: Jan Friedrich <jft@dev2day.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: "linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] ath9k: fix erased ieee80211_rx_status.mactime
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:35:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C572C18.6070003@dev2day.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100802202137.GC8920@tux>

> What effect does this have? What issue does this fix? Is this a
> fix which also needs to be propagated to the stable kernels, if so
> why? etc.

The mactime is always set to 0. I encountered the problem in IBSS mode.
In ieee80211_rx_bss_info (net/mac80211/ibss.c) the mactime is used to
trigger an IBSS merge. At the moment the merge is always triggered.

I got the "beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS merge with BSSID" log
message with every beacon and so recognized this odd behaviour.

I think this has to be fixed and at least influences IBSS mode negatively.

Greetings,
Jan



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 20:16 [Patch] ath9k: fix erased ieee80211_rx_status.mactime Jan Friedrich
2010-08-02 20:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-08-02 20:35   ` Jan Friedrich [this message]
2010-08-02 20:38     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-08-02 20:48       ` Jan Friedrich
2010-08-02 20:52         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-02 21:55 Jan Friedrich

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