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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS join
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:10:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1391069448.4134.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21226.184.85287.849137@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:05 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> > In the CSA case the BSS is still used, we modify the BSS entry in 
> > ieee80211_ibss_finish_csa()  (which is not really clean, but done by all the 
> > current CSA code).
> > 
> > Since the BSS is changed and the node continues to beacon, I think that's ok 
> > to do it like Sujith proposed.
> 
> I think Johannes is right. If a station receives a CSA and is unable to switch
> to the new channel, it leaves the IBSS network. In this case we don't need to
> keep the BSS entry around, since we proceed to scan again.

Hah, I wasn't paying attention ... yeah I think you're right, it's the
*failure* case, in which we shouldn't care any more. Simon, you were
thinking of the successful case, but that doesn't call disconnect ...

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28  1:54 [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS join Sujith Manoharan
2014-01-28 14:42 ` Simon Wunderlich
2014-01-29 12:08 ` Johannes Berg
2014-01-29 12:19   ` Simon Wunderlich
2014-01-30  7:35     ` Sujith Manoharan
2014-01-30  8:10       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-01-30 10:58         ` Simon Wunderlich

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