Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Remove bss information of the current AP when it goes out of range

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:49 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:40:53PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 10:09 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > > There is no point having the bss information of currently associated AP
> > > when the AP is detected to be out of range.
> > 
> > Seems sane to me. There are a few other places I think where we hold on
> > to the bss info way too long, in fact, we hold on to it _forever_ most
> > of the time.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, we hold bss info when we get direct probe timeout, auth timeout and assoc
> timeout. I will remove bss in those places also n the next version.

Not just that, but also when we've found a BSS and never connect to it,
we'll never time it out. It's nothing you need to fix though, I'm
perfectly ok with just putting this patch in as a start.

johannes

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