From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:60071 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751437AbZGMTPR (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:15:17 -0400 Subject: Re: nl80211 and wext interoperability From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1247512206.4369.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1247139797.2144.27.camel@johannes.local> <43e72e890907091053s59ed356er22c59944efec9a01@mail.gmail.com> <1247163342.22527.2.camel@johannes.local> <1247507618.4369.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1247507677.4166.27.camel@johannes.local> <1247512206.4369.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-I4IMok1cs2ANwoQBFQYd" Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:14:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1247512484.30003.0.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-I4IMok1cs2ANwoQBFQYd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 15:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 19:54 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:53 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > >=20 > > > Mainly because there's no way to tell WEXT drivers to "stop whatever > > > you're doing and just be idle"... > > >=20 > > > The supplicant clears out the keys on TERM anyway, and in some cases > > > (iwlagn) the driver will keep trying to reassociate internally > >=20 > > Seems unlikely, ITYM ipw? >=20 > Nope. I saw this behavior with iwlagn (both 3945 and 4965) when I was > doing all that hidden stuff back in April with 2.6.27 kernels. Might be > different in very recent kernels? That doesn't sound right, to the best of my knowledge the _driver_ has no chance to try to associate, and mac80211 didn't. johannes --=-I4IMok1cs2ANwoQBFQYd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKW4egAAoJEODzc/N7+QmazB8QAJ8U1Q22XUY1u62ngJwIrT9d R3rynjdoGMxp7B9mGzUdhzbbupN1MBpgnPsPLMOuEnjLTNMawqP8H+t991F5dSJ1 C2g2NYYE0tE2fa2DLiCIDZu+jCrj7gSv45PmXav/q40QeCtIXtTN7NkrfzDebM/F 3vJLwuAs9EV8RCLeR0ZAE/PWnYNuXw6+Rode7E32OfwLg24nz21snMVSifuXUIsH XjMkkqvRd0v2qr6RLfmoSAB7vaPmWleMPc4DwrEU4FgfN8VLck1D3SK7XbSVGPiO BhgdoCvkIUzpm9ebBt+cEQ6whB3zkLNGlb6uhW8B9tRW5Pu5QVH16mfHw7GYjXgm YnZWukP+2WERaHcVm/byrqFPqerLQ/eMOJV8inAidyHB9h/7fk8NUv6odoftOh9L 2AciwQ0boBRQd1PNFSdndmYu8bG2e/HgfEHkjh2O8xbQoB1hqY+XsXMHfoTOdcCb XJ5TIbEmYyMk7XAfB4dos5DQ4lIiXzhdTuzqUA9b1Ybpc7x5B08IABxm9uMAZBfM PN+Cpm97Bo/Sv4y9WRawK5HJp9g4PSaxQwm8W4dNOj9NReCPxKScqrNw+xDX0k86 vSefznfMUCgJuiqRn14lljjObjxo1EJcypHrkareKrjNxtRG49kwzLtRzMQJsJZB SltwtsAYVmAG+3KU1lni =R97W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-I4IMok1cs2ANwoQBFQYd--