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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Jouni.Malinen@Atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Update IBSS beacon timestamp properly
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:08:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236517687.4205.24.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18867.49758.741918.767411@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20090308_140452_425640_5DA5F113)

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On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 18:34 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:15 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> > > In IBSS mode, the beacon timestamp has to be filled with the
> > > BSS's timestamp when joining, and set to zero when creating
> > > a new BSS.
> > 
> > I don't quite understand why, do we read it out again at any point?
> > 
> 
> Drivers do, when they do a beacon_get(). And the timestamp in the
> beacon is used to calculate TBTT.

Oh ok.

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-08 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03  4:45 [PATCH] mac80211: Update IBSS beacon timestamp properly Sujith
2009-03-08 12:52 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-08 13:04   ` Sujith
2009-03-08 13:08     ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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