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Johannes Berg wrote:
it would help if you used diff -u
johannes
Will do.

I think the patch below is most correct. However, I still have problems when a third station joins the ad-hoc network. When the third station joins, it doesn't always show a complete set of bitrates in the rc_stats files for the other two stations. For one (I assume this is the beacon OR whoever sent a probe response) it shows all, but for the other, it shows only one or two. This is remarkably similar to the failure mode I was seeing before, so much so that there were probably cases where I confused the two issues.
I've traced it down to this bit in rx.c in prepare_for_handlers():

       case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
               [ stuff deleted ]
               } else if (!rx->sta) {
                       int rate_idx;
                       if (rx->status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT)
                               rate_idx = 0; /* TODO: HT rates */
                       else
                               rate_idx = rx->status->rate_idx;

rx->sta = ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(sdata, bssid, hdr->addr2,
                               BIT(rate_idx));
               }
               break;

I don't think this is right. I know the issue is here, because if I change to "BIT(rate_idx) | 0xfff" the problem corrects. Either we need to (a) set it properly here or (b) make sure something else happens before or after. I'm not sure we have enough context here to do (a).

Thoughts?

patch for ibss.c :

--- compat-wireless-2009-11-09/net/mac80211/ibss.c 2009-11-08 21:15:06.000000000 -0800 +++ compat-wireless-2009-11-09d/net/mac80211/ibss.c 2009-11-13 14:17:37.935556965 -0800
@@ -246,9 +246,13 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct
    if (!channel || channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_DISABLED)
        return;

+    supp_rates = ieee80211_sta_get_rates(local, elems, band);
+
+    /* make sure mandatory rates are always added */
+    supp_rates |= ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local, band);
+
    if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC && elems->supp_rates &&
        memcmp(mgmt->bssid, sdata->u.ibss.bssid, ETH_ALEN) == 0) {
-        supp_rates = ieee80211_sta_get_rates(local, elems, band);

        rcu_read_lock();

@@ -257,12 +261,10 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct
            u32 prev_rates;

            prev_rates = sta->sta.supp_rates[band];
-            /* make sure mandatory rates are always added */
-            sta->sta.supp_rates[band] = supp_rates |
-                ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local, band);
+            sta->sta.supp_rates[band] = supp_rates;

+            if (sta->sta.supp_rates[band] != prev_rates) {
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
-            if (sta->sta.supp_rates[band] != prev_rates)
                printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: updated supp_rates set "
                    "for %pM based on beacon info (0x%llx | "
                    "0x%llx -> 0x%llx)\n",
@@ -272,6 +274,8 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct
                    (unsigned long long) supp_rates,
                    (unsigned long long) sta->sta.supp_rates[band]);
#endif
+                rate_control_rate_init(sta);
+            }
        } else
ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(sdata, mgmt->bssid, mgmt->sa, supp_rates);

@@ -415,6 +419,15 @@ struct sta_info *ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(
    sta->sta.supp_rates[band] = supp_rates |
            ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local, band);

+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
+    printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: initialized supp_rates set "
+        "for %pM (0x%llx) (band %d)\n",
+        sdata->dev->name,
+        sta->sta.addr,
+        (unsigned long long) sta->sta.supp_rates[band],
+        band);
+#endif
+
    rate_control_rate_init(sta);

    if (sta_info_insert(sta))


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