On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 20:40 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > > If the HW is monitoring connection loss (as advertised > by IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR) but not filtering > beacons (IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER) then mac80211 will > still start the beacon loss timer and if a few beacons > are lost, e.g. due to scanning, drop the connection. > > If the hardware doesn't advertise connection monitoring, > then it won't drop the connection right away but probe > the AP, which is intended, but due to the logic in the > timer when connection monitoring is done it assumes the > connection was actually lost. > > Fix this problem by not starting the timer when the HW > does connection monitoring. Applied for -next 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
