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From: "Alina Friedrichsen" <x-alina@gmx.net>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Give it some time to do the TSF sync
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:33:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090221223310.227280@gmx.net> (raw)

Give slow hardware some time to do the TSF sync, to not run into an IBS=
S merging endless loop in some rarely situations.

Version 2 adds a comment.

Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
---
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index 1bbfc70..ea737bf 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -332,6 +332,10 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct ieee80211=
_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	       jiffies);
 #endif
=20
+	/* give slow hardware some time to do the TSF sync */
+	if (rx_timestamp > 0x400000)
+		goto put_bss;
+
 	if (beacon_timestamp > rx_timestamp) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
 		printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: beacon TSF higher than "

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