RE: [PATCH] mac80211: fail back to use associate from reassociate

[Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:41 -0700, Sandesh Goel wrote:
> Therefore, the AP should not return the said error code
> (WLAN_STATUS_REASSOC_NO_ASSOC) unless it has checked (using some inter
> AP protocol) that no other AP in the ESS has an existing association
> with the requesting STA. If the AP is returning the error without
> doing this check, I would think that it is an AP bug. 

The AP was the only one in the ESS, so it should be OK.

> It would be interesting to know which AP behaves in this way and
> whether
> is really does the check correctly or not. Note that the AP itself
> having rebooted shouldn't cause this error code to be returned, which
> is what I found strange. 

Do you mean the AP should remember all its associated STAs before it
rebooted?

Thanks,
-yi