Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS merge

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

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
> > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> 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. :-)
> >>
> >> Anyone know if this applies for 32?
> > What exactly?
> 
> The patch.

The patch applies and seems sane.  It seems like 2.6.32 would need it as well?

John
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