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ath9k: Disable staggered Beacon frame scheduling
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It looks like there are some issues in the current ath9k version as
far as staggered Beacon frame scheduling is concerned. This results in
Beacon frame timestamp being off by 25 milliseconds or so which can
cause issues with multicast power save buffering in AP mode. Some
client stations fail to receive multicast frames when there is this
large an offset between TBTT and actual Beacon transmission time.

Since ath9k does not yet support multiple BSSes anyway, the staggered
Beacon frame scheduling is just increasing the number of interrupts at
this point. The easiest fix for the timestamp offset is to disable
staggered Beacon frames for now. We need to redesign beacon.c anyway
when adding multi-BSS support with mac80211 since the existing code
depends on different mechanism for Beacon frame transmission.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen authored and John W. Linville committed Dec 12, 2008
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h
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Expand Up @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ struct ath_vap {
* number of beacon intervals, the game's up.
*/
#define BSTUCK_THRESH (9 * ATH_BCBUF)
#define ATH_BCBUF 4
#define ATH_BCBUF 1
#define ATH_DEFAULT_BINTVAL 100 /* TU */
#define ATH_DEFAULT_BMISS_LIMIT 10
#define IEEE80211_MS_TO_TU(x) (((x) * 1000) / 1024)
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