[PATCH 2/2] wcn36xx: fix the mesh STA for rejoin

Yeoh Chun-Yeow yeohchunyeow at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 09:25:52 EDT 2014


> Did you guys experiment with the approach of making delete sta
> indication remove the sta in mac80211?

Nope. But I remember that last time we try to delete the peer mesh STA
and add it back (in firmware) without doing anythings on mac80211. We
seems to lost connectivity with the peer mesh STA after adding back to
firmware.

> I see that it calls
> ieee80211_report_low_ack(), but as I understand it, that just
> notifies userspace without taking any action on its own.

Yes, for mesh mode, we have peer link timer to monitor the peer mesh
STA in mac80211. Once we don't receive any beacon from the peer mesh
STA (default 1800 seconds), the peer mesh STA will be deleted.

> Perhaps in mesh user mpm case it should delete the sta.
>
> (If we did that, we'd have to re-peer and then mac80211 would
> re-add the sta, but compared to the overhead of sending
> 20 failed QoS nulls times the number of peers every 3 seconds,
> it's probably lower.)

Did you try to delete the peer mesh STA in firmware and add it back?
Does this work?

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Chun-Yeow



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