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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cfg80211 question: impedance mismatch of .connect versus .assoc
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:41:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255527718.4095.292.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910141136.03288.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>

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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:36 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> While playing with .auth/.deauth/.assoc/.disassoc 
> versus .connect/.disconnect in libertas, I notices two things 
> that makes things a bit hard for me.

> This makes the "iw connect" command only work if an "iw scan" did 
> just take place and I provide an BSS on the command line. 
> 
> So maybe net/wireless/sme.c should be generalized ?
> 
> 
> 
> BSSID for .deauth/.disassoc vs. .disconnect
> -------------------------------------------
> Both the .deauth and .disassoc get the cfg80211_bss entry to 
> deauth / disassociate against.
> 
> .disconnect doesn't get this.

This was intentional, as with ->connect() the driver is supposed to
handle roaming/pre-connect scanning etc. Basically it's mostly for the
case of full-mac drivers that do that in the device firmware.

What you perceive as a "mismatch" is fully intentional, due to the
separation of where roaming is handled.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14  9:36 cfg80211 question: impedance mismatch of .connect versus .assoc Holger Schurig
2009-10-14 13:41 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-10-14 14:26   ` Holger Schurig

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