On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 20:35 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> If the station is out of coverage of AP and it tries to probe the AP
> because of the beacon loss then there is not point in pushing the
> data from the higher layer. So lets suspend the data transmission
> till the probing succeeds.
We could argue about the idea,
> + if (ifmgd->flags & IEEE80211_STA_BEACON_POLL)
> + netif_tx_stop_all_queues(sdata->dev);
> /*
> * When the hardware reports an accurate Tx ACK status, it's
> * better to send a nullfunc frame instead of a probe request,
> @@ -1255,6 +1257,10 @@ static void ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap_send(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
> (u32) -1, true, false);
> }
>
> + if (ifmgd->flags & IEEE80211_STA_BEACON_POLL) {
> + drv_flush(sdata->local, false);
> + netif_tx_wake_all_queues(sdata->dev);
> + }
but this implementation is completely bogus anyway. Think about what
this really does.
johannes
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