linux-kernel - Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 1/1] ath5k: fix beacon

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:14:54 -0400
From:	Bob Copeland <bcopeland@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 1/1] ath5k: fix beacon_int handling

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Jiri Slaby<jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
> 73ca5203366235f8a43e490767284ba8cfd8c479
> (ath5k: remove conf->beacon_int usage)
> removed bintval setting from ath5k_config. We need to init the
> interval earlier and don't touch it in add_interface anymore.
>
> Otherwise it will be set only once by upper layer through
> bss_info_changed but not on second and further hostap executions.

Shouldn't we just not destroy the value in add_interface?

I thought conf->beacon_int was deprecated.

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