From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Notify new IBSS network creation
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:14:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348643666.10548.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20578.31128.207010.660580@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20120926_054322_128189_D4D138FB)
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 09:12 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Initialization of beacon transmission in IBSS mode depends
> on whether a new BSS is being created or joined. When joining
> an existing IBSS network, beaconing has to start only after
> a TSF-sync has happened - this is explained in 11.1.4.
>
> Introduce a new parameter in the BSS information structure to
> indicate creator/joiner mode.
Interesting, I guess this makes sense. Never seemed to come up, maybe it
doesn't matter all that much since we sync once we receive some other
beacon, so worst case we just transmit a few spuriously?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 3:42 [RFC] mac80211: Notify new IBSS network creation Sujith Manoharan
2012-09-26 7:14 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-09-26 7:29 ` Sujith Manoharan
2012-09-26 7:37 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-26 8:07 ` Sujith Manoharan
2012-09-26 8:19 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-26 8:24 ` Sujith Manoharan
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