Re: [ath9k-devel] IBSS can't beacon after rejoin / regression in TSF syncing code?

2014-01-27 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hello Sujith, Simon Wunderlich wrote: we have found a regression in the IBSS creation/joining part of mac80211 which is appearently connected to the TSF-syncing patches introduced last year[1]. It prevents beaconing of an adhoc member after rejoining a cell when this cell is currently

Re: [ath9k-devel] IBSS can't beacon after rejoin / regression in TSF syncing code?

2014-01-27 Thread Simon Wunderlich
I'm CCing Teemu, who introduced this roughly 3.5 years ago (mac80211: remove BSS from cfg80211 list when leaving IBSS, 5ea096c0c85e80335889539899af9a4717976e0b) , maybe he can explain it more. I couldn't understand that from the commit message and the corresponding mail thread. If we

Re: [ath9k-devel] IBSS can't beacon after rejoin / regression in TSF syncing code?

2014-01-27 Thread Sujith Manoharan
Simon Wunderlich wrote: Yeah, this patch works for my case. I'm not completely sure why we only unlink for this special case (no stations bssid = zero), I don't see why it would hurt to always throw away that BSS and rescan on the next join? I'm CCing Teemu, who introduced this roughly

Re: [ath9k-devel] IBSS can't beacon after rejoin / regression in TSF syncing code?

2014-01-26 Thread Sujith Manoharan
Simon Wunderlich wrote: we have found a regression in the IBSS creation/joining part of mac80211 which is appearently connected to the TSF-syncing patches introduced last year[1]. It prevents beaconing of an adhoc member after rejoining a cell when this cell is currently empty. The

[ath9k-devel] IBSS can't beacon after rejoin / regression in TSF syncing code?

2014-01-24 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hi Sujith and list(s), we have found a regression in the IBSS creation/joining part of mac80211 which is appearently connected to the TSF-syncing patches introduced last year[1]. It prevents beaconing of an adhoc member after rejoining a cell when this cell is currently empty. The problem is