From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fail back to use associate from reassociate
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 08:28:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070509152855.GB941@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509054152.GA30839@mail.intel.com>
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:41:52PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> mac80211: fail back to use associate from reassociate failure
>
> Some APs have strict checking between associate and reassociate. In
> a case when an AP is restarted during a connection, it denies the
> mac80211 reassoc request since this is a new association for the AP.
> To fix this problem, we need to check the status code against
> WLAN_STATUS_REASSOC_NO_ASSOC and clear ifsta->prev_bssid_set in
> handling the association failure response.
Can you please identify such an AP? This sounds like a workaround that
makes the non-AP STA (client) behave in a way that does not match with
IEEE 802.11 standard and in general, I'm against this change without a
very good reason for it. This type of change would, e.g., break IEEE
802.11r fast transition which can only be done using reassociation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 5:41 [PATCH] mac80211: fail back to use associate from reassociate Zhu Yi
2007-05-09 15:28 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-05-10 3:20 ` Zhu Yi
2007-05-15 5:41 ` Sandesh Goel
2007-05-15 6:52 ` Zhu Yi
2007-05-15 9:36 ` Sandesh Goel
2007-05-15 13:03 ` Jouni Malinen
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