kernel_optimize_test/net
Luis R. Rodriguez f01a067d9e mac80211: send last 3/5 probe requests as unicast
Some buggy APs do not respond to unicast probe requests
or send unicast probe requests very delayed so in the
worst case we should try to send broadcast probe requests,
otherwise we can get disconnected from these APs.

Even if drivers do not have filters to disregard probe
responses from foreign APs mac80211 will only process
probe responses from our associated AP for re-arming
connection monitoring.

We need to do this since the beacon monitor does not
push back the connection monitor by design so even if we
are getting beacons from these type of APs our connection
monitor currently relies heavily on the way the probe
requests are received on the AP. An example of an AP
affected by this is the Nexus One, but this has also been
observed with random APs.

We can probably optimize this later by using null funcs
instead of probe requests.

For more details refer to:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5715

This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.35+].

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:18 -04:00
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9p fs/9p: destroy fid on failed remove 2010-08-02 14:28:36 -05:00
802
8021q vlan_dev: VLAN 0 should be treated as "no vlan tag" (802.1p packet) 2010-07-18 15:38:44 -07:00
appletalk
atm ppp: make channel_ops const 2010-08-04 21:53:17 -07:00
ax25
bluetooth Bluetooth: Fix incorrect setting of remote_tx_win for L2CAP ERTM 2010-08-10 07:59:11 -04:00
bridge Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-08-02 22:22:46 -07:00
caif caif: precedence bug 2010-07-22 14:14:47 -07:00
can can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling 2010-08-03 00:31:48 -07:00
core cfg80211: support sysfs namespaces 2010-08-16 15:26:40 -04:00
dcb
dccp net: dccp: fix sign bug 2010-07-18 15:07:14 -07:00
decnet net-next: remove useless union keyword 2010-06-10 23:31:35 -07:00
dsa Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-07-20 18:25:24 -07:00
econet econet: fix locking 2010-06-11 18:37:08 -07:00
ethernet Net: ethernet: pe2.c: fix EXPORT_SYMBOL macro code style issue 2010-07-14 18:27:09 -07:00
ieee802154
ipv4 tcp: no md5sig option size check bug 2010-08-07 20:24:28 -07:00
ipv6 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
ipx
irda ppp: make channel_ops const 2010-08-04 21:53:17 -07:00
iucv
key
l2tp ppp: make channel_ops const 2010-08-04 21:53:17 -07:00
lapb
llc
mac80211 mac80211: send last 3/5 probe requests as unicast 2010-09-16 15:46:18 -04:00
netfilter Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
netlabel
netlink genetlink: use genl_register_family_with_ops() 2010-07-26 21:00:10 -07:00
netrom
packet
phonet Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-07-20 18:25:24 -07:00
rds
rfkill
rose net/rose: Use GFP_ATOMIC 2010-08-01 00:32:12 -07:00
rxrpc RxRPC: Fix a potential deadlock between the call resend_timer and state_lock 2010-08-04 21:53:16 -07:00
sched pkt_sched: Fix sch_sfq vs tcf_bind_filter oops 2010-08-07 22:45:41 -07:00
sctp Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
sunrpc mm: add context argument to shrinker callback to remaining shrinkers 2010-07-21 15:33:01 +10:00
tipc
unix drop_monitor: convert some kfree_skb call sites to consume_skb 2010-07-20 13:28:05 -07:00
wanrouter net: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex 2010-07-12 20:21:47 -07:00
wimax
wireless cfg80211/nl80211: introduce p2p device types 2010-09-16 15:46:06 -04:00
x25
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-07-20 18:25:24 -07:00
compat.c
Kconfig wireless: Make COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES depend upon WEXT_CORE 2010-07-26 13:13:49 -07:00
Makefile net/Makefile: conditionally descend to wireless and ieee802154 2010-06-29 15:32:43 -07:00
nonet.c
socket.c net: support time stamping in phy devices. 2010-07-18 19:15:26 -07:00
sysctl_net.c
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