From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:58353 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752796AbZERPns (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 11:43:48 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so3320692fxm.37 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 08:43:48 -0700 (PDT) To: Johannes Berg Cc: John Linville , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: split out and decrease probe wait time References: <1242151393.11924.3.camel@johannes.local> From: Kalle Valo Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:43:46 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1242151393.11924.3.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Tue\, 12 May 2009 20\:03\:13 +0200") Message-ID: <87pre6beml.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: > The time we wait for a probe response after probing an AP due to > beacon loss is currently the same as the monitoring interval, 2s. > This is far too long, APs should respond to probes within a > fraction of that time. To be able to adjust both values, add a > new constant IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT, use it for checking the probe > response, and adjust it down to 200ms instead of 2 seconds. Looks good to me. > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo -- Kalle Valo