Re: [PATCH] Fix NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant race condition

[Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>]

Dan Williams wrote:

snip, snip

> 
> When I say "reassociate", I mean a new association cycle to the _same_
> BSSID/SSID using the settings that are current at that point in time.  I
> guess I should have made that clear.
> 
> Dan
> 
>> A quick look at ieee80211_ioctl_siwessid() shows that it always forces
>> an authentication cycle.
>>
>> I'll experiment a little to see how the Softmac can be driven through an
>> authentication/association cycle on calls to SIOCSIWESSID or SIOCSIWAP.
>>
>> rtg

Dan,

I agree that driving the SoftMAC protocol through an auth/assoc cycle
when changing ESSID or BSSID is architecturally the right thing to do.
However, the required changes are a bit too extensive for me to add to a
recently released kernel (Feisty).  I'll have to get back to this when I
have more freedom to whack and slash.

In the meantime, I still think emitting an ASSOC event is a good interim
fix. I'll be testing it over the next few days within the Ubuntu community.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@ubuntu.com