Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Reconfigure beacons after a merge run in IBSS mode

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:19 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > I think instead we should have an enable-beacon flag that we disable
> > before scanning, and then re-enable after scanning like here. That way,
> > we also don't need any extra code in the driver to stop beaconing before
> > scanning, and it generally helps too when userspace deletes the beacon
> > we stop beaconing in a controlled fashion.
> 
> Yep, I did remember the earlier discussion, this seemed like a quick fix
> for my IBSS troubles :)

:)
How do you disable beaconing to start with though?

> > The best way is probably to add a conf flag like CONF_PS and a change
> > flag for this, what do you think?
> 
> This has to be a per-interface flag, so it would be part of ieee80211_if_conf ?

Right, of course, sorry. And I don't care whether you add a flags field
or a bool beacon_enabled ;)

johannes

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