Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753187AbYH1Kwx (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:52:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751774AbYH1Kwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:52:39 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.24]:43572 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812AbYH1Kwi (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:52:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=cq84id2b9HwNfqA+qR/GtMbM6fZnMQp224ltRewsk/qUN9Uj4Zm897ft3CEIVVdVrR 84Aq5Ya3Hdgv+OS3C0AjzFXqgqaCBbWh6GJ2bDU1OWSmGRQA9CCfbhruBfmLobQcwttN YoDkumd43+l1SfjnItNGyin2HPmP67FeVe+as= Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808280352q4a913c1cv33a6bc0998cdbcb9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:52:36 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Bruno Randolf" Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26 Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Michael Buesch" , "John W. Linville" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <200808281235.35449.bruno@thinktube.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080827013009.GA15781@tuxdriver.com> <1ba2fa240808271611v382631ecn2a24e2816562d434@mail.gmail.com> <20080827233103.GE5927@tesla> <200808281235.35449.bruno@thinktube.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1636 Lines: 38 On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:11:15PM -0700, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> Last solution would be to remove this merging all together but then >> I'm not sure if Bruno added this code just implement the spec or >> really tested it with any hardware. > > of course i tested IBSS merge with atheros hardware when i sent in the patch > and it worked. this is about 6 month ago. recently i briefly tested IBSS, Do you know how the TSF is actually synchronized from the HW perspective? > with the same HW but it did not work any more - i didn't have the time to > investigate this issue... There is another IBSS bug that was introduced connected to rates maybe this is also your problem.. we have something in the pipe that should solve this. > please remember that there was a lengthy discussion about the standard > compliance and the reasons behind the need for IBSS merge before my patch was > accepted. i believe i had convincing arguments why IBSS mode does not > reliably work at all in practice if we don't support IBSS merge. Sure but if TSF is not adopted correctly and that's the case probably of most of the drivers under mac80211 then it makes worth. Just need to be aware of this. > you might want to re-read this thread: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/10278 > Thanks Tomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/