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ipw2200: fix scanning while associated

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This patch fixes sporadic firmware restarts when scanning while associated.

The firmware will quietly cancel a scan (while associated) if the dwell time
for a channel to be scanned is larger than the time it may stay away from the
operating channel (because of DTIM catching). Unfortunately the driver is not
notified about the canceled scan and therefore the scan watchdog timeout will
be hit and the driver causes a firmware restart which results in
disassociation. This mainly happens on passive channels which use a dwell time
of 120 whereas a typical beacon interval is around 100.

The patch changes the dwell time for passive channels to be slightly smaller
than the actual beacon interval to work around the firmware issue. Furthermore
the number of allowed beacon misses is increased from one to three as otherwise
most scans (while associated) won't complete successfully.

However scanning while associated will still fail in corner cases such as a
beacon intervals below 30.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Helmut Schaa
2008-12-10 13:17:26 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent d8004cb926
commit 14a4dfe2ff
2 changed files with 23 additions and 6 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.h
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@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ enum connection_manager_assoc_states {
#define HOST_NOTIFICATION_S36_MEASUREMENT_REFUSED 31
#define HOST_NOTIFICATION_STATUS_BEACON_MISSING 1
#define IPW_MB_SCAN_CANCEL_THRESHOLD 3
#define IPW_MB_ROAMING_THRESHOLD_MIN 1
#define IPW_MB_ROAMING_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT 8
#define IPW_MB_ROAMING_THRESHOLD_MAX 30