On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 21:40 -0600, Pat Fruth wrote: > This patch addresses an issue specific to Apple devices experiencing a > wireless disconnect when trying to associate with either 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz wifi > of a Linksys WRT1900AC router. > Apple devices (MacBooks running Mac OS X 10.10.x Yosemite in particular, but > there may be others), appear to re-auth/re-associate within approximately 25 > seconds of initially associating. > Evidence of this can be seen by the presence of an entry similar to the > following in the Apple system logs; > MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS.sss AM kernel[0]: wl0: Roamed or switched channel, > reason #8, bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > The Marvell wifi driver doesn’t generate a NL80211_CMD_FRAME_TX_STATUS event > on transmitting a response to auth and/or reassociate requests. Thus, the > respective callback handler functions (in hostapd’s ieee802_11.c) never get > driven, ultimately leading to the problem. > The patch causes a TX_STATUS event to be generated for auth and reassociate > request’s responses, in addition to associate request’s responses. > > Signed-off-by: Pat Fruth <p...@patfruth.comt> > --- > .../mwlwifi/patches/002_TX-STATUS-for-reassoc-auth.patch | 14 > ++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 > package/kernel/mwlwifi/patches/002_TX-STATUS-for-reassoc-auth.patch > > diff --git > a/package/kernel/mwlwifi/patches/002_TX-STATUS-for-reassoc-auth.patch > b/package/kernel/mwlwifi/patches/002_TX-STATUS-for-reassoc-auth.patch > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..5f0d7fb > --- /dev/null > +++ b/package/kernel/mwlwifi/patches/002_TX-STATUS-for-reassoc-auth.patch > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ > +--- a/mwl_tx.c > ++++ b/mwl_tx.c > +@@ -395,7 +395,10 @@ void mwl_tx_done(unsigned long data) > + > + tr = (struct mwl_dma_data *)done_skb->data; > + > +- if > (ieee80211_is_assoc_resp(tr->wh.frame_control)) { > ++ // if > (ieee80211_is_assoc_resp(tr->wh.frame_control)) { > ++ if > (ieee80211_is_assoc_resp(tr->wh.frame_control) || > ++ > ieee80211_is_reassoc_resp(tr->wh.frame_control) || > ++ ieee80211_is_auth(tr->wh.frame_control)) { > + > + /* Remove H/W dma header > + */
I don't think there's anything to be gained by commenting out the original line. It only adds extra noise and the change that's been made is evident from the log. Ian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel