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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:36:31 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS merge
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> wrote:
>>> John W. Linville wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:44:46AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:33 +0530, Sujith wrote:
>>>>> > Currently, in IBSS mode, a single creator would go into
>>>>> > a loop trying to merge/scan. This happens because the IBSS timer is
>>>>> > rearmed on finishing a scan and the subsequent
>>>>> > timer invocation requests another scan immediately.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > This patch fixes this issue by checking if we have just completed
>>>>> > a scan run trying to merge with other IBSS networks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Heh, how many people do we need to fix IBSS? :)
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, no kidding...I suspect that actual IBSS users are few, and a
>>>> substantial number of those are doing crazy things with it! :-)
>>> Yeah, we're doing crazy things like mesh networks of few hundred
>>> nodes... something that 11s isn't really suitable for. :-)
>>
>> Anyone know if this applies for 32?
> What exactly?

The patch.

  Luis