From: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>,
johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, rmanohar@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_ack status for all except probing frames
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:31:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46362ff1-acfb-701c-5f71-7d117d223e1a@quantenna.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509409746-26592-1-git-send-email-rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
On 10/30/2017 05:29 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
>
> Update last_ack status for all except station probing frames
> (i.e null data). Otherwise the station inactivity duration is
> cleared whenever AP is checking presence of idle stations by sending
> null data frame for every inactive threshold (ap_max_inactivity).
> Though the station is idle for longer period, the inactive
> time in station dump is restricted ap_max_inactivity threshold.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
> ---
To clarify: wouldn't it break hostapd's "inactivity timeot kick-out"
logic in hostapd? As hostapd generates NULL frames to idle stations to
reset their inactivity time, otherwise it will disassociate a station,
after an ap_max_inactivity period.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-01 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-31 0:29 [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_ack status for all except probing frames Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-01 2:31 ` Igor Mitsyanko [this message]
2017-11-02 18:06 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-06 10:29 ` Johannes Berg
2017-11-06 17:44 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-06 19:50 ` Igor Mitsyanko
2017-11-06 20:20 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-13 9:25 ` Johannes Berg
2017-11-15 19:21 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-20 16:09 ` Johannes Berg
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