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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Notify new IBSS network creation

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On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 09:12 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Initialization of beacon transmission in IBSS mode depends
> on whether a new BSS is being created or joined. When joining
> an existing IBSS network, beaconing has to start only after
> a TSF-sync has happened - this is explained in 11.1.4.
> 
> Introduce a new parameter in the BSS information structure to
> indicate creator/joiner mode.

Interesting, I guess this makes sense. Never seemed to come up, maybe it
doesn't matter all that much since we sync once we receive some other
beacon, so worst case we just transmit a few spuriously?

johannes

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