Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS merge

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:20:41PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:44:46AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:33 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> >> > Currently, in IBSS mode, a single creator would go into
> >> > a loop trying to merge/scan. This happens because the IBSS timer is
> >> > rearmed on finishing a scan and the subsequent
> >> > timer invocation requests another scan immediately.
> >> > 
> >> > This patch fixes this issue by checking if we have just completed
> >> > a scan run trying to merge with other IBSS networks.
> >> 
> >> Heh, how many people do we need to fix IBSS? :)
> > 
> > Yeah, no kidding...I suspect that actual IBSS users are few, and a
> > substantial number of those are doing crazy things with it! :-)
> Yeah, we're doing crazy things like mesh networks of few hundred
> nodes... something that 11s isn't really suitable for. :-)

In fact, I had you in mind when I said that -- crazy doesn't mean
useless... :-)

John
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