From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:38144 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755554Ab1AaL1n (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:27:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: deauthenticate STAs before suspend From: Johannes Berg To: Rajkumar Manoharan Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1296468391-12268-1-git-send-email-rmanoharan@atheros.com> References: <1296468391-12268-1-git-send-email-rmanoharan@atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:27:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1296473261.3812.12.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:36 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote: > The STA is not deauthenticated before the system goes to sleep, > when the vif was configured by iw/iwconfig. This holds the AP > resources unnecessarily, till the STA entry got expired in AP. Is that a big problem? We actually had this intentionally, and we go to PS before going to sleep, so if the sleep is very short then we will not be disconnected. Also, it's much easier this way to implement WoWLAN. > So before going to sleep ensure that all stations > got deauthenticated. Also your text and subject and code is really confusing -- I thought you wanted to deauthenticate stations that are associated to mac80211 acting as an AP. johannes