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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: measure the channel change time
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:33:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060504143355.7bbfef35@griffin.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146745340.1137.26.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 04 May 2006 14:22:20 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Probably. And yes, it should still work since stop>start at all times.

Are you sure you can guarantee that stop > start when these values come
from hardware you don't have specification for?

> Yes, if the card has been up for like 459148 years or has been reset to
> an unbelievably high value. Remember, it's a 64 bit counter.

TSF is set to a value sent by an AP. Is there anything that prevents
that AP to send you e.g. 0xfffffffffffff0?

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-03 19:05 [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: measure the channel change time Michael Buesch
2006-05-04  9:11 ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-04 12:22   ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-04 12:33     ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2006-05-04 12:36       ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-19 18:02         ` John W. Linville

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