On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:20:41PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:44:46AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:33 +0530, Sujith wrote: > >> > Currently, in IBSS mode, a single creator would go into > >> > a loop trying to merge/scan. This happens because the IBSS timer is > >> > rearmed on finishing a scan and the subsequent > >> > timer invocation requests another scan immediately. > >> > > >> > This patch fixes this issue by checking if we have just completed > >> > a scan run trying to merge with other IBSS networks. > >> > >> Heh, how many people do we need to fix IBSS? :) > > > > Yeah, no kidding...I suspect that actual IBSS users are few, and a > > substantial number of those are doing crazy things with it! :-) > Yeah, we're doing crazy things like mesh networks of few hundred > nodes... something that 11s isn't really suitable for. :-) In fact, I had you in mind when I said that -- crazy doesn't mean useless... :-) John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
