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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:27:12 +0100
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	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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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?

- Felix