On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 20:35 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> This patch moves the beacon loss timer to future on receiving tx
> ack status from the associated AP. So that we can avoid unnecessary
> AP probing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/mac80211/mlme.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> index a984f1f..65f1262 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> @@ -1209,8 +1209,10 @@ void ieee80211_sta_tx_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
> if (!ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control))
> return;
>
> - if (ack)
> + if (ack) {
> ieee80211_sta_reset_conn_monitor(sdata);
> + ieee80211_sta_reset_beacon_monitor(sdata);
> + }
This doesn't make a lot of sense. You can argue that beacon monitoring
isn't worthwhile, but side-stepping it completely when there's traffic
seems not what's intended as it is?
johannes
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