Am Di 15 Jul 2008 10:41:01 CEST schrieb Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Right, but it does make sense to advertise what we're using, and this
patch just adds a strict "driver tells mac80211 what it's using" flow.
That's mostly what I'm objecting to. If you were calling the variable
"max_listen_interval" and having mac80211 send it back to the driver in
the BSS config as bssconf->listen_interval, and, for now, simply use the
max, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Using "max_listen_interval" as default may possibly result in APs
rejecting the association. At least the 802.11 spec defines a status
code 51 with the description "Association denied because the
ListenInterval is too large".
Maybe retrying the association with a lower listen interval could help
here. Therefore I agree with Johannes that the decision about what
value to actually use should be made in mac80211.
Helmut
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