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    mac80211: send last 3/5 probe requests as unicast · f01a067d
    Luis R. Rodriguez authored
    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: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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