Re: some wireless suspend thoughts

Johannes Berg
2009-05-18T19:26:08Z

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On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:00 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> To me trying to maintain association during suspend sounds wrong. What
> do we gain from that?
>
> In my opinion it's better to disassociate during suspend and let user
> space reassociate during resume. That way no need to do any special
> hacks and functionality is the same with all APs.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing a lot here, but this is my first impression.

It seems it could be possible to just suspend for very little time, in
which case you might care. Also, this actually helped for the case where
we don't manage to maintain association because then we send a nullfunc
frame and get a deauth very very quickly at resume.

johannes

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