On Wednesday 09 July 2008 15:11:45 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> Currently only beacons generated in AP mode have the software
> sequence number inserted. This means IBSS and Mesh mode are broken
> for all hardware that require software sequence numbers.
Does software seq numbering even work at all?
What about packets that get sent between the driver requested the
beacon and the driver does actually queue it?
> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/mac80211/tx.c | 5 +++++
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
> index 359cb36..0e7e1f3 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
> @@ -1876,6 +1876,8 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
> hdr->frame_control = IEEE80211_FC(IEEE80211_FTYPE_MGMT,
> IEEE80211_STYPE_BEACON);
>
> + ieee80211_include_sequence(sdata, hdr);
> +
> num_beacons = &ifsta->num_beacons;
> } else if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif)) {
> /* headroom, head length, tail length and maximum TIM length */
> @@ -1896,6 +1898,9 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
> cpu_to_le16(local->hw.conf.beacon_int);
> mgmt->u.beacon.capab_info = 0x0; /* 0x0 for MPs */
>
> + ieee80211_include_sequence(sdata,
> + (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data);
> +
> pos = skb_put(skb, 2);
> *pos++ = WLAN_EID_SSID;
> *pos++ = 0x0;
--
Greetings Michael.
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