Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:12905 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752888AbZASIw5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:52:57 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:52:57 -0800 From: Sujith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <18804.16004.937429.850079@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20090119_095301_705066_D7613ACF) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:19:08 +0530 To: Johannes Berg CC: "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Reconfigure beacons after a merge run in IBSS mode In-Reply-To: <1232353772.3799.1.camel@johannes> References: <18804.11602.400684.88722@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1232353772.3799.1.camel@johannes> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg wrote: > I think instead we should have an enable-beacon flag that we disable > before scanning, and then re-enable after scanning like here. That way, > we also don't need any extra code in the driver to stop beaconing before > scanning, and it generally helps too when userspace deletes the beacon > we stop beaconing in a controlled fashion. Yep, I did remember the earlier discussion, this seemed like a quick fix for my IBSS troubles :) > The best way is probably to add a conf flag like CONF_PS and a change > flag for this, what do you think? This has to be a per-interface flag, so it would be part of ieee80211_if_conf ? Sujith