On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:35:36PM -0700, Jan Friedrich wrote: > > What effect does this have? What issue does this fix? Is this a > > fix which also needs to be propagated to the stable kernels, if so > > why? etc. > > The mactime is always set to 0. I encountered the problem in IBSS mode. > In ieee80211_rx_bss_info (net/mac80211/ibss.c) the mactime is used to > trigger an IBSS merge. At the moment the merge is always triggered. > > I got the "beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS merge with BSSID" log > message with every beacon and so recognized this odd behaviour. > > I think this has to be fixed and at least influences IBSS mode negatively. Think? Does the patch actually fix something or do you think it fixes something? Next time please include all these details on your patch commit log mesage so its easy to understand the reasoning behind the patch. Luis -- 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
