Re: [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211: Add option to report the bss entry in connect result

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 15:16 +0530, Kanchanapally, Vidyullatha wrote:
> From: "Kanchanapally, Vidyullatha" <vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com>
> 
> Since cfg80211 maintains separate BSS table entries for APs if the
> same
> BSSID, SSID pair is seen on multiple channels, it is possible that it
> can map the current_bss to a BSS entry on the wrong channel. This
> current_bss will not get flushed unless disconnected and cfg80211
> reports a wrong channel as the associated channel.
> 
> Fix this by introducing a new cfg80211_connect_bss() function which
> is
> similar to cfg80211_connect_result(), but it includes an additional
> parameter: the bss the STA is connected to. This allows drivers to
> provide the exact bss entry that matches the BSS to which the
> connection
> was completed.

Applied.

I'm surprised you're so worried about this test scenario (we've
discussed this multiple times before), but I can't really argue with
passing the BSS pointer either :)

johannes