W dniu 18 kwietnia 2011 13:11 uÅytkownik RafaÅ MiÅecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ: > I was pinged about bug report on OpenWRT [0] about b43 not setting > beacon interval for AP mode when restarting hostapd. You can see my > comment in this bug report for some details. > > It seems that starting hostapd calls: > ieee80211_ops->start > > In normal situation this is followed by: > ieee80211_ops->bss_info_changed > with BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT > > However I suspect that if device was already used earlier (so this is > restart, not cold start), driver does not receive > BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT or bss_info_changed is not called at all. > > Is this possible mac80211 caches beacon interval and does not flush it > on hardware restart? > > I suspect this part of code to do the caching: > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/mac80211/cfg.c#L452 > > How does it work? BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT is passed only: > if (params->interval && > (sdata->vif.bss_conf.beacon_int != params->interval)) > > Performing: > grep "\.interval" ./net/mac80211/* > grep "\->interval" ./net/mac80211/* > does not give anything interesting. It seems nl80211.c is involved here. > > Cold someone take a look at this? Ping, please? -- RafaÅ -- 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
