Hi, While adding adhoc shared network support to NM, I ran into a few mac80211 problems. 1) doesn't send SIOCGIWAP event on successful adhoc activation (patch forthcoming) 2) takes a _really_ long time to create an adhoc network. This is controlled by IEEE80211_IBSS_JOIN_TIMEOUT. Why is that 20 seconds? The problem here is that wpa_supplicant has an association timer shorter than IEEE80211_IBSS_JOIN_TIMEOUT and will re-try the connection, causing mac80211 to reset ifsta->ibss_join_req. FullMAC drivers will simply look in their scan list (and optionally perform one scan) and if the IBSS isn't found, create it. I'd really like to take IEEE80211_IBSS_JOIN_TIMEOUT down to 5 or 7 seconds. This is only the initial IBSS creation, IBSS merging will still be in effect. I simply thing 20 seconds is really too long here. 3) doesn't send NULL SIOCGIWAP disassoc events when the device goes down or the module is removed. Where's the best place to put the event on module remove? 4) Is the association expected to survive a up->down->up sequence? If not, then we should be sending NULL SIOCGIWAP event whenever dev_close() gets called. 5) mac80211 requires the device to be down when changing modes. That's fine; but requires a patch to wpa_supplicant to handle this. This would cause failures when switching AP that were different modes from NM. See: http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-June/017894.html Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
