From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:20520 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750999AbYJSGBh (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:01:37 -0400 To: "Johannes Berg" Cc: John Linville , Dan Williams , Jouni Malinen , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: inform userspace of probe/auth/assoc timeout References: <1224186284.11127.3.camel@johannes.berg> From: Kalle Valo Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:01:05 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1224186284.11127.3.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 16 Oct 2008 21\:44\:44 +0200") Message-ID: <873ait6s4e.fsf@nokia.com> (sfid-20081019_080201_095183_F64F1E1E) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > I noticed that when for some reason [1] the probe or auth times > out, wpa_supplicant doesn't realise this and only tries the next > AP when it runs into its own timeout, which is ten seconds, and > that's quite long. Fix this by making mac80211 notify userspace > that it didn't associate. Earlier this week I received an internal bug report about this. Excellent timing for providing a fix. Thank you, Johannes :) > Might be worth backporting to stable? I have to backport the patch anyway so I can provide the patch. But I don't think this being that important bug to be fixed in stable series. We have had this bug in mac80211 always, right? -- Kalle Valo