On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:04 -0700, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote: > > This patch has an awesome commit log entry and describes issues with > > the current RTS mechanism and improvements made on the patch for > > different scenarios :-) > > but in no way talks about issues with association > > with 5 GHz APs. Can you clarify in the commit log how it cures issues > > with 5 GHz, if that is indeed an intended fix for it? > Johannes might be able to add more, the original attempt of this patch > is to prevent un-necessary protection for non-data frames which we > introduced few rc ago. while we fix this, but we also found out this > patch also address the issue we have for 5GHz unable to associate to AP. Well it does describe what it's intended to fix, we just found out that a side effect of trying to protect too many frames can be, but maybe isn't always, that you can't associate on 5 GHz because the protection mechanism fails on the direct probe probe request frame ... johannes -- 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
