Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
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> > This is assuming that we don't manage to process the frame within 192
> > usecs. I guess that will be true since we defer it to a tasklet, but do
> > we want to bet on it in the future or should we simply widen the window
> > where the merge *won't* happen because the driver doesn't provide enoug=
h
> > info and also add the 24 bytes offset here?
>=20
> sorry, i was to fast in agreeing ;)
> on a second thought i realized that we don't need to worry about that:
>=20
> since we get to handle the frame after it was received *completely*, we c=
an be=20
> sure that the current time returned by get_tsf() is later than the time w=
hen=20
> byte 24 was received. so no need for adding the offset.

Hah, good point.

johannes

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