From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:50761 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751962Ab1J1KBZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:01:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: disable powersave for broken APs From: Johannes Berg To: John Linville Cc: Bill C Riemers , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <1319795987.8931.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111028_115958_723700_DB411019) References: <1319795987.8931.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111028_115958_723700_DB411019) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:01:19 +0200 Message-ID: <1319796079.8931.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111028_120128_591657_A8155354) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 11:59 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > From: Johannes Berg > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg > --- > 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