From: bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Michael Wu" <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, jirislaby@gmail.com,
mickflemm@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linville@tuxdriver.com, "Ulrich Kunitz" <kune@deine-taler.de>,
"Daniel Drake" <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:52:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801211052.41016.bruno@thinktube.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801201143.09488.IvDoorn@gmail.com>
On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:43:09 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Adding Johill and Michael as they are maintainers of mac80211 and they
> > need to review this. Please add them on further mac80211 patches.
> >
> > Note to driver authors: zd1211rw, rt2x00 drivers and adm8211 will need
> > to set mactime if they want IBSS merge to work as this functionality
> > would be added with this. I believe all other drivers set it, but
> > didn't do a thorough grep.
>
> Then there is a problem for rt2x00. Since the mactime isn't known.
> rt2400pci is the _only_ device which has a RX_END_TIME field in the
> RX descriptor.
one workaround could be to simply use the current TSF at the time in the
tasklet or interrupt handler (to be more close to the actual rx time). this
should be sufficient to catch most cases where an IBSS merge is necessary -
usually the beacon's TSF will be much higher than the local TSF.
bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-21 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 12:52 [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging Bruno Randolf
2008-01-20 10:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-20 10:43 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-21 1:52 ` bruno randolf [this message]
2008-01-21 16:05 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-22 19:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-22 19:54 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-22 20:32 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-22 20:51 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-23 1:59 ` [ath5k-devel] " bruno randolf
2008-01-22 23:16 ` Adam Baker
2008-01-22 23:25 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-23 14:49 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-24 5:51 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-21 1:57 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-23 14:48 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-23 17:22 ` Dan Williams
2008-01-24 3:49 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-24 3:26 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-24 16:55 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-25 8:01 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-02 23:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-05 1:50 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-05 1:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-06 10:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-06 4:34 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-02-06 18:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-06 20:10 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-07 3:58 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-02-08 9:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-12 2:00 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-15 1:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-15 1:40 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-07 3:52 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-02-08 9:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-24 5:43 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-24 8:51 ` Kalle Valo
2008-01-24 14:27 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-24 14:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-25 6:16 ` bruno randolf
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-05 11:08 [PATCH 2/2] " Johannes Berg
2008-02-06 2:49 ` [PATCH] " Bruno Randolf
2008-02-06 23:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-08 9:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-12 3:25 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-12 9:50 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-14 6:19 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-14 14:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-12 9:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-14 10:19 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-08 9:41 Joerg Pommnitz
2008-02-15 15:09 [PATCH 3/3] " Johannes Berg
2008-02-16 2:29 ` [PATCH] " Bruno Randolf
2008-02-17 9:11 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-18 1:42 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-18 11:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-18 2:03 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-18 11:16 ` Johannes Berg
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