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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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aes_ccm.c mac80211: Don't squash error codes in key setup functions 2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
aes_ccm.h
aes_cmac.c mac80211: Don't squash error codes in key setup functions 2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
aes_cmac.h mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:02 -05:00
agg-rx.c mac80211: AMPDU rx reorder timeout timer 2010-08-16 15:26:39 -04:00
agg-tx.c mac80211: update aggregation documentation 2010-06-14 15:39:28 -04:00
cfg.c mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
cfg.h
chan.c cfg80211/mac80211: use lockdep_assert_held 2010-09-16 15:46:00 -04:00
debugfs_key.c mac80211: use cipher suite selectors 2010-08-16 16:45:11 -04:00
debugfs_key.h mac80211: 802.11w - Use BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:03 -05:00
debugfs_netdev.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-04-15 16:21:34 -04:00
debugfs_netdev.h mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev 2009-12-21 18:38:52 -05:00
debugfs_sta.c mac80211: make TX aggregation start/stop request async 2010-06-14 15:39:27 -04:00
debugfs_sta.h
debugfs.c net/mac80211: Use wiphy_<level> 2010-08-25 14:33:17 -04:00
debugfs.h net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
driver-ops.h mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
driver-trace.c mac80211: fix sparse warnings/errors 2009-08-04 16:43:25 -04:00
driver-trace.h mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
event.c cfg80211: use proper allocation flags 2009-07-10 15:01:49 -04:00
ht.c mac80211: allow drivers to request SM PS mode change 2010-08-16 15:26:40 -04:00
ibss.c net/mac80211: Use wiphy_<level> 2010-08-25 14:33:17 -04:00
ieee80211_i.h mac80211: make the beacon monitor available externally 2010-09-16 15:46:16 -04:00
iface.c mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
Kconfig mac82011: Allow selection of minstrel_ht as default rc algorithm 2010-06-30 15:00:53 -04:00
key.c cfg80211/mac80211: use lockdep_assert_held 2010-09-16 15:46:00 -04:00
key.h mac80211: allow vendor specific cipher suites 2010-08-27 13:27:07 -04:00
led.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
led.h
main.c mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
Makefile mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm 2010-06-02 16:12:59 -04:00
mesh_hwmp.c mac80211: use common work struct 2010-06-14 15:38:17 -04:00
mesh_pathtbl.c mac80211: use common work struct 2010-06-14 15:38:17 -04:00
mesh_plink.c mac80211: avoid scheduling while atomic in mesh_rx_plink_frame 2010-06-24 15:42:30 -04:00
mesh.c mac80211: pull mgmt frame rx into rx handler 2010-06-14 15:39:26 -04:00
mesh.h mac80211: pull mgmt frame rx into rx handler 2010-06-14 15:39:26 -04:00
michael.c
michael.h
mlme.c mac80211: send last 3/5 probe requests as unicast 2010-09-16 15:46:18 -04:00
offchannel.c mac80211: disable beacon monitor while going offchannel 2010-09-16 15:46:17 -04:00
pm.c mac80211: only cancel software-based scans on suspend 2010-09-01 16:12:28 -04:00
rate.c net/mac80211: Use wiphy_<level> 2010-08-25 14:33:17 -04:00
rate.h mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm 2010-06-02 16:12:59 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c minstrel_ht: move minstrel_mcs_groups declaration to header file 2010-06-24 15:42:18 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel_ht.c mac80211: freeing the wrong variable 2010-07-26 15:32:41 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel_ht.h minstrel_ht: move minstrel_mcs_groups declaration to header file 2010-06-24 15:42:18 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel.c minstrel: don't complain about feedback for unrequested rates 2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel.h minstrel: make the rate control ops reusable from another rc implementation 2010-03-10 17:44:23 -05:00
rc80211_pid_algo.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
rc80211_pid_debugfs.c net: mac80211: Fix a typo. 2010-08-16 15:26:40 -04:00
rc80211_pid.h
rx.c mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
scan.c mac80211: allow scan to complete from any context 2010-08-27 13:27:06 -04:00
spectmgmt.c mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev 2009-12-21 18:38:52 -05:00
sta_info.c cfg80211/mac80211: use lockdep_assert_held 2010-09-16 15:46:00 -04:00
sta_info.h mac80211: AMPDU rx reorder timeout timer 2010-08-16 15:26:39 -04:00
status.c net/mac80211: Use wiphy_<level> 2010-08-25 14:33:17 -04:00
tkip.c mac80211: remove wep dependency 2010-07-08 16:35:50 -04:00
tkip.h mac80211: remove wep dependency 2010-07-08 16:35:50 -04:00
tx.c mac80211: Fix dangling pointer in ieee80211_xmit 2010-09-14 16:08:03 -04:00
util.c mac80211: add p2p device type support 2010-09-16 15:46:07 -04:00
wep.c mac80211: use cipher suite selectors 2010-08-16 16:45:11 -04:00
wep.h mac80211: remove wep dependency 2010-07-08 16:35:50 -04:00
wme.c mac80211: fix-up build breakage in 2.6.33 2010-01-06 15:35:49 -05:00
wme.h mac80211: fix skb buffering issue 2010-01-05 16:21:40 -05:00
work.c mac80211: per interface idle notification 2010-08-16 15:26:40 -04:00
wpa.c mac80211: remove unused status flag checks 2010-08-16 16:45:21 -04:00
wpa.h mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:02 -05:00