Commit d1c5091f authored Jul 31, 2009 by Maxim Levitsky Committed by John W. Linville Aug 04, 2009

mac80211: Increase timeouts for station polling



Do a probe request every 30 seconds, and wait for probe response,
half a second This should lower the traffic that card sends, thus save
power Wainting longer for response makes probe more robust against
'slow' access points

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent a43abf29

net/mac80211/mlme.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@
		* Time the connection can be idle before we probe
		* it to see if we can still talk to the AP.
		*/
		#define IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME (2 * HZ)
		#define IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME (30 * HZ)
		/*
		* Time we wait for a probe response after sending
		* a probe request because of beacon loss or for
		* checking the connection still works.
		*/
		#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT (HZ / 5)
		#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT (HZ / 2)

		#define TMR_RUNNING_TIMER 0
		#define TMR_RUNNING_CHANSW 1