On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> 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. :-) > >> > >> Anyone know if this applies for 32? > > What exactly? > > The patch. The patch applies and seems sane. It seems like 2.6.32 would need it as well? 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
