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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status

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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:28 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When sending authentication/association frames they
> might take a bit of time to go out because we may
> have to synchronise with the AP, in particular in
> the case where it's really a P2P GO. In this case
> the 200ms fixed timeout could potentially be too
> short if the beacon interval is relatively large.
> 
> For drivers that report TX status we can do better.
> Instead of starting the timeout directly, start it
> only when the frame status arrives. Since then the
> frame was out on the air, we can wait shorter (the
> typical response time is supposed to be 30ms, wait
> 100ms.) Also, if the frame failed to be transmitted
> try again right away instead of waiting.

Applied.

johannes

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