[PATCH 002/002] [MAC80211] Increase timeouts for station polling

>From 04976d22d45f26aa4b4dece5dd520e3347ac32d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:54:23 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/mac80211/mlme.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 1d8640a..e4bb590 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -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
-- 
1.6.0.4



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