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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: monitor the connection

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On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:17 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > With the recent MLME rework I accidentally removed the connection
> > monitoring code. In order to add it back, this patch will add new
> > code to monitor both for beacon loss and for the connection actually
> > working, with possibly separate triggers.
> >
> > When no unicast frames have been received from the AP for (currently)
> > two seconds, we will send the AP a probe request.
> 
> I think this is too short, but we can change it later. 

That's why I kept it separate (well, also to change the beacon stuff to
be dependent on the beacon interval later)

> I quickly looked at the patch and it looks ok for me. Unfortunately I
> can't test it right now because N800 support is broken in 2.6.31. I'm
> fixing that currently.

One thing is actually broken -- I start the monitoring even when
hardware is doing beacon filtering/monitoring.

johannes

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