Re: [PATCH 1/2] brmc80211: dont use jiffies for BSS TSF

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 12/22/14 14:14, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 14:13 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> On 12/22/14 13:58, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> By the way - I know now that the proprietary Broadcom driver has the
>>> same bug, to the point where this is apparently getting encoded into the
>>> Android framework.
>>>
>>> I urge you to fix this issue there as well. If an absolute "last
>>> updated" timestamp is needed (and "last seen [ms] ago" isn't sufficient)
>>> then new API will be needed.
>>
>> Sorry, seem to have missed the original patches somehow. Guess because
>> it says *brmc*80211.
>
> No no - it's a looong time ago and was also applied a long time ago. It
> just reared it's head again in another place.

Found the commit in git log. So you mean the proprietary DHD driver or 
Android bcmdhd still uses host timestamp. I agree it should be fixed, 
but I may need some good arguments to convince my co-workers. So what 
kind of issues are rearing their (ugly) heads? supplicant issues?

Regards,
Arend