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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: add assoc beacon timeout logic
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:08:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384160932.14334.6.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384119945-31213-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> (sfid-20131110_225237_639267_0727F79C)

On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 15:45 -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> We don't want to be waiting forever for a beacon that will never come,
> just continue the association.

This makes no sense, IMO.

If there really are no beacons at all, then nothing can work with the AP
-- things like HT, regulatory/radar, powersave, multiple virtual
interfaces and many others require beacons.

If the AP is sending beacons but the device isn't receiving them, then
it's a driver bug and mac80211 shouldn't work around it.

johannes



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-10 21:45 [PATCH v2] mac80211: add assoc beacon timeout logic Felipe Contreras
2013-11-10 21:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11  6:41 ` Krishna Chaitanya
2013-11-11  6:41   ` Krishna Chaitanya
2013-11-11 11:01   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 11:01     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11  9:08 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-11-11 10:59   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 15:43     ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-11 16:23       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 16:23         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 16:41         ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-11 16:53           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 16:56             ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 17:01               ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-11 17:00             ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-11 18:06               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 18:06                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-13 18:30                 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-14 10:44                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-27  6:44                     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-27  6:44                       ` Felipe Contreras

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