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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:20:41 +0100
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS merge
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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. :-)

- Felix