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From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qualcomm.com>,
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Notify new IBSS network creation
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:59:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20578.44784.141822.850065@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348643666.10548.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>

Johannes Berg wrote:
> Interesting, I guess this makes sense. Never seemed to come up, maybe it
> doesn't matter all that much since we sync once we receive some other
> beacon, so worst case we just transmit a few spuriously?

Yes, that was the reported problem:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg96846.html

ath9k programs the TBTT timers etc. based on the HW TSF, but this needs to
be done after a sync has been done (in joiner mode, that is). We do it for
station mode, but IBSS needs to fixed.

Sujith

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-26  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-26  3:42 [RFC] mac80211: Notify new IBSS network creation Sujith Manoharan
2012-09-26  7:14 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-26  7:29   ` Sujith Manoharan [this message]
2012-09-26  7:37     ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-26  8:07       ` Sujith Manoharan
2012-09-26  8:19         ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-26  8:24           ` Sujith Manoharan

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