From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't drop null frames during software scan
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:32:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BBCE18.4090606@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237043931.5235.67.camel@johannes.local>
Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 16:44 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> ieee80211_tx_h_check_assoc() was dropping everything else than probe
>> requests during software scan. So the null frame with the power save
>> bit was dropped and AP never received it. This meant that AP never
>> buffered any frames for the station during software scan.
>>
>> Fix this by allowing to transmit both probe request and null frames
>> during software scan. Tested with stlc45xx.
>
> Would it make sense to reorder the scan code instead?
Perhaps. I chose this path only because it was simple to implement :)
I'll take a look at the scan code in more detail and fix it there.
Kalle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-14 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-14 14:44 [PATCH] mac80211: don't drop null frames during software scan Kalle Valo
2009-03-14 15:18 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-14 15:32 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2009-03-14 16:07 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-14 16:09 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-14 17:04 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-15 20:12 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-14 16:12 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-14 16:18 ` Michael Buesch
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