Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Lucian andor <lucisandor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I run an Ad-hoc network, using a SuSE 11.2 computer, kernel 2.6.32-5.5
> > from SuSE (probably modifed by them.) If I turn off all the other
> > computers in the network, the ath5k/kernel combination writes 20 times
> > per second to the system log /var/log/messages:
> >
> > Dec 28 14:10:31 battlecruiser kernel: [ 929.933020] wlan0: No active
> > IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID
> > (merge)
>
> Turn off CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG in the kernel config
> (or ask SuSE to do the same). You can't turn it off at
> runtime, but you could turn off kernel debug messages in
> syslogd.
>
> However, this is only supposed to happen every 30s if I
> read the code right. Maybe someone on linux-wireless
> knows how this can happen?
This patch (in Linus' tree) apparently didn't make it to 2.6.32.
commit 450aae3d7b60a970f266349a837dfb30a539198b
Author: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 2 12:33:23 2009 +0530
mac80211: Fix IBSS merge
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.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sujith
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