On 11/19/2010 01:55 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
Waiting for 500 ms after sending a probe request seems a bit excessive, especially when doing 5 attempts. If the connection is bad enough to make multiple requests time out, then user space should try to quickly find a new AP. Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart<pstew@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau<nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index ae99c0b..a64bb92 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ * a probe request because of beacon loss or for * checking the connection still works. */ -#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT (HZ / 2) +#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT (HZ / 5)
Maybe make this a sysfs (or procfs) tunable? Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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
