From: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: use listen interval 5 as default
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:19:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002241419.38121.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (raw)
Currently if a driver does not set hw.max_listen_interval a listen
interval of 1 is negotiated with the AP. Thus, the AP could drop
buffered frames for us after just one beacon interval which can
easily happen with the current powersave and scan implementation.
To avoid this issue increase the default interval to 5 which should
be a reasonable safe default.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
---
net/mac80211/main.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index ec8f767..06c33b6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -558,8 +558,12 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
debugfs_hw_add(local);
+ /*
+ * if the driver doesn't specify a max listen interval we
+ * use 5 which should be a safe default
+ */
if (local->hw.max_listen_interval == 0)
- local->hw.max_listen_interval = 1;
+ local->hw.max_listen_interval = 5;
local->hw.conf.listen_interval = local->hw.max_listen_interval;
--
1.6.0.2
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