From patchwork Tue Mar 19 21:23:54 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ben Greear X-Patchwork-Id: 2304561 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-wireless@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-process-083081@patchwork2.kernel.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by patchwork2.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA6EDFB79 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934317Ab3CSVYK (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:24:10 -0400 Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:57037 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933933Ab3CSVYJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:24:09 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (firewall.candelatech.com [70.89.124.249]) by ns3.lanforge.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r2JLNuvk002581 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:23:58 -0700 From: greearb@candelatech.com To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ben Greear Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Be more careful about sending beacon-loss-events. Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:23:54 -0700 Message-Id: <1363728234-1629-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.4 In-Reply-To: <1363728234-1629-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> References: <1363728234-1629-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Ben Greear I don't think we should send the events unless it was actually a beacon that was lost...not just any probe of an AP. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear --- :100644 100644 f46607a... 81e0619... M net/mac80211/mlme.c net/mac80211/mlme.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index f46607a..81e0619 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -1624,12 +1624,14 @@ static void ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, goto out; } - if (beacon) + if (beacon) { mlme_dbg_ratelimited(sdata, "detected beacon loss from AP - sending probe request\n"); - ieee80211_cqm_rssi_notify(&sdata->vif, - NL80211_CQM_RSSI_BEACON_LOSS_EVENT, GFP_KERNEL); + ieee80211_cqm_rssi_notify(&sdata->vif, + NL80211_CQM_RSSI_BEACON_LOSS_EVENT, + GFP_KERNEL); + } /* * The driver/our work has already reported this event or the