From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:36486 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751455AbZGJLRd (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:17:33 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so800638fxm.37 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:17:31 -0700 (PDT) To: Johannes Berg Cc: John Linville , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: monitor the connection References: <1247186507.1905.14.camel@johannes.local> <1247187640.1905.16.camel@johannes.local> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:17:29 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1247187640.1905.16.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Fri\, 10 Jul 2009 03\:00\:40 +0200") Message-ID: <87eiso23ee.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > With the recent MLME rework I accidentally removed the connection > monitoring code. In order to add it back, this patch will add new > code to monitor both for beacon loss and for the connection actually > working, with possibly separate triggers. > > When no unicast frames have been received from the AP for (currently) > two seconds, we will send the AP a probe request. I think this is too short, but we can change it later. I quickly looked at the patch and it looks ok for me. Unfortunately I can't test it right now because N800 support is broken in 2.6.31. I'm fixing that currently. -- Kalle Valo