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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dmitry Tarnyagin <abi.dmitryt@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartosz MARKOWSKI <bartosz.markowski@tieto.com>,
	Janusz DZIEDZIC <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 05/07] mac80211: Purge cfg80211 beacon cache before authentication.
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:31:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318408296.3933.28.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.v27ruyliya27un@edmitar> (sfid-20111012_030254_860153_C3D1FBFD)

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 03:02 +0200, Dmitry Tarnyagin wrote:
> From: Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@stericsson.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:15:13 +0200
> 
> cw1200 device requires SSID to be available at AUTH stage.
> cfg80211 beacon cache is designed to handle multi-SSID BSSes, so
> bss struct returned by cfg80211_get_bss() has random SSID if BSS
> just changed SSID before authentication (typical for p2p).
> 
> As a workaround cfg80211 beacon cache is purged to make sure
> target BSS is searchable in rb-tree at the AUTH stage.

Funny, but hell no.

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12  1:02 [RFC 05/07] mac80211: Purge cfg80211 beacon cache before authentication Dmitry Tarnyagin
2011-10-12  8:31 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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