On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:11:15PM -0700, Tomas Winkler wrote: > if (beacon_timestamp > rx_timestamp) > merge > > The patch from Assaf just disable reporting RX timestamp to mac and > thus disabling merging which gives incorrect spec behavior but smooth > traffic. We *should follow the spec*. > Actually we've checked few cards including broadcom and various > windows NICs What are windows NICs? > and non of them implements this correctly so this WA is > probably the solution. Disagreed! If there is hardware which is not capable of handling this we should simply have a HW flag which specifies this to handle this as a work around (WA). Just because some cards are not capable it doesn't mean it should impose that on the rest. > Other solution would be to mark leader with highest TSF and not > reconnecting to the same station again and again. > > Last solution would be to remove this merging all together but then > I'm not sure if Bruno added this code just implement the spec or > really tested it with any hardware. I'm not sure if any vendor > implements PS in IBSS so this merging is probably not important > anyway. Absolutely not! IBSS merge is per spec, otherwise you don't really have a real IBSS. Luis -- 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
