From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Bill C Riemers <briemers@redhat.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: disable powersave for broken APs
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:01:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319796079.8931.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319795987.8931.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111028_115958_723700_DB411019)
On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 11:59 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> Only AID values 1-2007 are valid, but some APs have been
> found to send random bogus values, in the reported case an
> AP that was sending the AID field value 0xffff, an AID of
> 0x3fff (16383).
>
> There isn't much we can do but disable powersave since
> there's no way it can work properly in this case.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Bill C Riemers <briemers@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> ---
> Bill, please test this patch and see if you still see the
> warnings, or you can revert your iwlwifi changes and test
> then, it should work.
>
> John, please wait for Bill to test before you apply, just
> to confirm it fixes the issue.
I should also point out that this is intended to fix
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748548
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 9:59 [PATCH] mac80211: disable powersave for broken APs Johannes Berg
2011-10-28 10:01 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-10-28 11:53 ` Bill C Riemers
2011-10-28 11:55 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-02 10:46 ` Johannes Berg
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