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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "Alina Friedrichsen" <x-alina@gmx.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Give it some time to do the TSF sync
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:45:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6vz2cm8.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902212302.15056.mb@bu3sch.de> (Michael Buesch's message of "Sat\, 21 Feb 2009 23\:02\:14 +0100")

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

> On Saturday 21 February 2009 22:52:02 Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
>> Give slow hardware some time to do the TSF sync, to not run into an IBSS merging endless loop in some rarely situations. 
>
> It would be great to put this into a source code comment. Without
> this knowledge one immediately gets a WTF-lookalike face when seeing
> this code.

I fully agree.

>> -	if (beacon_timestamp > rx_timestamp) {
>> +	if (beacon_timestamp > rx_timestamp && rx_timestamp > 0x400000) {

And no magic numbers, please. Create a define for that.

-- 
Kalle Valo

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-22  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-21 21:52 [PATCH] mac80211: Give it some time to do the TSF sync Alina Friedrichsen
2009-02-21 22:02 ` Michael Buesch
2009-02-22  6:45   ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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