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Date:      Tue, 20 May 2008 23:19:35 GMT
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   PERFORCE change 141939 for review
Message-ID:  <200805202319.m4KNJZ6E089846@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Change 141939 by sam@sam_ebb on 2008/05/20 23:19:16

	correct comment

Affected files ...

.. //depot/projects/vap/sys/net80211/ieee80211_proto.c#32 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/projects/vap/sys/net80211/ieee80211_proto.c#32 (text+ko) ====

@@ -1331,12 +1331,14 @@
 
 	if (ic->ic_flags & IEEE80211_F_SCAN) {
 		/*
-		 * If scanning just ignore and reset state.  It's awkward
-		 * to reset the swbmiss timer on scan start/end so instead
-		 * we do this.  If get a bmiss after coming out of scan
-		 * because we haven't had time to receive a beacon then
-		 * we should probe the AP before posting a real bmiss
-		 * (unless iv_bmiss_max has been artifiically lowered).
+		 * If scanning just ignore and reset state.  If we get a
+		 * bmiss after coming out of scan because we haven't had
+		 * time to receive a beacon then we should probe the AP
+		 * before posting a real bmiss (unless iv_bmiss_max has
+		 * been artifiically lowered).  A cleaner solution might
+		 * be to disable the timer on scan start/end but to handle
+		 * case of multiple sta vap's we'd need to disable the
+		 * timers of all affected vap's.
 		 */
 		vap->iv_swbmiss_count = 0;
 	} else if (vap->iv_swbmiss_count == 0) {



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