Re: [RFC 00/20] mac80211: multi-channel work

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 11:36 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 11:28 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote:
> >
> >> >> this scenario (deauth after disassoc) also sounds pretty unlikely...
> >> >
> >> > It seems that it happens when you ask the supplicant to "disconnect" via
> >> > the CLI.
> >> >
> >> at least in my setup issuing a "disconnect" via the CLI ends only with
> >> a deauth (as the respective code in wpa_supplicant/ctrl_iface.c seems
> >> to call only wpa_supplicant_deauthenticate())
> >
> > Hm. Maybe it was removing the interface then, or something. I don't
> > remember, but Ilan said he had a way to trigger this.
> >
> > In any case, it seems we should handle it in some way?
> >
> well, it sounds rare enough to me.
> maybe we can/should just drop it in this case (if there is no channel
> context attached)?

Maybe, yes. I just asked Jouni and he said he was moving towards *just*
deauth, will probably do it at least for now.

johannes