From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 2/2] mac80211: update sta->last_rx on acked tx frames
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:46:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52494861.8010007@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380532248.14467.4.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On 2013-09-30 11:10 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 21:39 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> When clients are idle for too long, hostapd sends nullfunc frames for
>> probing. When those are acked by the client, the idle time needs to be
>> updated.
>>
>> To make this work (and to avoid unnecessary probing), update sta->last_rx
>> whenever an ACK was received for a tx packet. Only do this if the flag
>> IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS is set.
>
> Why that last bit? If we got an ack status, wouldn't it be OK to do
> either way? Or are you saying drivers are lying more often than not
> otherwise?
I added that just in case, some drivers might not be fully reliable wrt.
reporting the ACK status.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-29 19:39 [PATCH 3.12 1/2] mac80211: use sta_info_get_bss() for nl80211 tx and client probing Felix Fietkau
2013-09-29 19:39 ` [PATCH 3.12 2/2] mac80211: update sta->last_rx on acked tx frames Felix Fietkau
2013-09-30 9:10 ` Johannes Berg
2013-09-30 9:46 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2013-09-30 10:34 ` Johannes Berg
2013-09-30 9:31 ` [PATCH 3.12 1/2] mac80211: use sta_info_get_bss() for nl80211 tx and client probing Johannes Berg
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