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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Improved IBSS merges even if BSSID is the same

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On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 00:33 +0100, Benoit Papillault wrote:
> According to IEEE 802.11, we should merge even if the BSSID from the
> received beacon is the same as our since merge can update more things
> that BSSID itself.
> 
> This is specifically true for ath9k where the merge updates TBTT
> timers
> as a side effect and this is indeed needed if the TSF has been updated
> (if TSF is updated, we need to update TBTT timers as well).
> 
> However, it could cause continuous merges if the RX timestamp or
> drv_get_tsf() is not accurate or not implemented.

The latter (not implemented) case doesn't actually. I don't just want
you to edit the changelog based on my thoughts, I would prefer if you
actually looked at the code to get your changelog.

johannes

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