Re: RFC: Allow multiple STA connected to same AP.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/10/2010 09:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:52:31 -0700, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
> wrote:
>
>> After some more debugging, it seems at least part of the problem is that
>> ath9k uses ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic to determine which
>> MACs to add to the BSSID mask.  But, before things are associated
> properly,
>> sdata isn't 'running', so ath9k doesn't calc the mask properly.
>>
>> Looks a bit like chicken-and-egg issue, and for some reason, it doesn't
>> seem to happen with WPA (but then, WPA doesn't authenticate properly
>> either).
>>
>> Maybe a new iterator is needed to get interfaces that want to go active
>> (maybe by determining if sdata->dev is 'UP') ?
>
> Err, that's exactly what the active interfaces iterator does. sdata is
> in fact 'running' as soon as the interface is UP.

Maybe that bssidmask logic runs before sdata is actually brought up
then.  I'll keep poking at things.

Thanks,
Ben

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