Return-path: Received: from mail30g.wh2.ocn.ne.jp ([220.111.41.239]:5665 "HELO mail30g.wh2.ocn.ne.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751882AbYH1KmY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:42:24 -0400 From: Bruno Randolf To: Tomas Winkler Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:35:34 +0200 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" References: <20080827013009.GA15781@tuxdriver.com> <1ba2fa240808271611v382631ecn2a24e2816562d434@mail.gmail.com> <20080827233103.GE5927@tesla> In-Reply-To: <20080827233103.GE5927@tesla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200808281235.35449.bruno@thinktube.com> (sfid-20080828_124227_630864_E2AA897E) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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, with the same HW but it did not work any more - i didn't have the time to investigate this issue... 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. you might want to re-read this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/10278 greetings, bruno