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    ath9k: Disable staggered Beacon frame scheduling · 6b3aa6ab
    Jouni Malinen authored
    It looks like there are some issues in the current ath9k version as
    far as staggered Beacon frame scheduling is concerned. This results in
    Beacon frame timestamp being off by 25 milliseconds or so which can
    cause issues with multicast power save buffering in AP mode. Some
    client stations fail to receive multicast frames when there is this
    large an offset between TBTT and actual Beacon transmission time.
    
    Since ath9k does not yet support multiple BSSes anyway, the staggered
    Beacon frame scheduling is just increasing the number of interrupts at
    this point. The easiest fix for the timestamp offset is to disable
    staggered Beacon frames for now. We need to redesign beacon.c anyway
    when adding multi-BSS support with mac80211 since the existing code
    depends on different mechanism for Beacon frame transmission.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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