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From: "Lars Ericsson" <Lars_Ericsson@telia.com>
To: "'Johannes Berg'" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: RE: Roaming issues: Timeout handling
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:30:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <008801c8797f$a7576830$0b3ca8c0@gotws1589> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204134256.6309.31.camel@johannes.berg>

Hi, 

I have split my issues ito individual disussions:

> Timeout handling
> =================
> When any of the ieee80211_authenticate() or ieee80211_associate() 
> function are executed.
> The mac silently set its state to IEEE80211_DISABLED and waits for the 
> wpa_supplicant to timeout its current action.
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to signal to the supplicant that the 
> operation has timeout, and no further action will be taken.
> To speed up the timeout response I had squeezed the supplicant timeout.
>
> How do you signal that? Make a wext event with the BSSID all-zeroes or
something? Sounds ok.johannes
>
> Yeah, a zero-BSSID event would mean "disconnected" or "association failed"
and the supplicant would take over at that point.
>

I can check if zero-BSSID would do it.

/Lars





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-27 13:44 Roaming issues Lars Ericsson
2008-02-27 13:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-27 16:28 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-27 17:36   ` Dan Williams
2008-02-27 17:44     ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-27 20:25       ` Roaming issues: AP deauthentication Lars Ericsson
2008-02-28 15:57         ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-27 20:27       ` Roaming issues: Monitoring of a usable link to the AP Lars Ericsson
2008-02-28 11:22         ` Lars Ericsson
2008-02-28 16:00           ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-27 20:30       ` Lars Ericsson [this message]

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