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authorEliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>2014-02-11 12:30:18 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-02-11 12:58:32 +0100
commit448cd2e248732326632957e52ea9c44729affcb2 (patch)
tree2d75253fd63bec208aff353edeff23dd666ea6fe
parentb59ec8dd4394cf11e3253e849a04734be6d3d694 (diff)
downloadmac80211-next-csa-448cd2e248732326632957e52ea9c44729affcb2.tar.gz
mac80211: reset probe_send_count also in HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR case
In case of beacon_loss with IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR device, mac80211 probes the ap (and disconnects on timeout) but ignores the ack. If we already got an ack, there's no reason to continue disconnecting. this can help devices that supports IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR only partially (e.g. take care of keep alives, but does not probe the ap. In case the device wants to disconnect without probing, it can just call ieee80211_connection_loss. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h2
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mlme.c4
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 4f0f29dce0aae..4005c5b4e3b41 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1507,8 +1507,6 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_control {
* @IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR:
* The hardware performs its own connection monitoring, including
* periodic keep-alives to the AP and probing the AP on beacon loss.
- * When this flag is set, signaling beacon-loss will cause an immediate
- * change to disassociated state.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_BEFORE_ASSOC:
* This device needs to get data from beacon before association (i.e.
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 61604834b9146..b9432b575444a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -131,13 +131,13 @@ void ieee80211_sta_reset_conn_monitor(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
if (unlikely(!sdata->u.mgd.associated))
return;
+ ifmgd->probe_send_count = 0;
+
if (sdata->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR)
return;
mod_timer(&sdata->u.mgd.conn_mon_timer,
round_jiffies_up(jiffies + IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME));
-
- ifmgd->probe_send_count = 0;
}
static int ecw2cw(int ecw)