From: Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] mac80211: ibss: send a probe request instead of allocating station
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:56:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1519044993.7832.105.camel@coelho.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180219124847.27169-3-luca@coelho.fi>
On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 14:48 +0200, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
>
> When we hear frames from IBSS that we don't have a station
> for, we allocate the station in the RX path with incomplete
> data.
>
> Instead, send a probe request to the station.
>
> This helps to solve an issue with iwlwifi, which cannot allocate
> stations in atomic paths, and has the added values of having full
> data of the station and getting rid from some code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> ---
I forgot Nicolas' comment about this patch when I sent v2. So please
don't take this yet (as we agreed) and I'll ask Sari to look into the
issue.
Just for the record.
--
Cheers,
Luca.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-19 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-19 12:48 [PATCH v2 00/13] cfg80211/mac80211 patches from our internal tree 2018-02-16 Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] mac80211: fix a possible leak of station stats Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] mac80211: ibss: send a probe request instead of allocating station Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:56 ` Luca Coelho [this message]
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] mac80211: fix calling sleeping function in atomic context Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] cfg80211: clear wep keys after disconnection Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] mac80211: support reporting A-MPDU EOF bit value/known Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] mac80211: add get TID helper Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] mac80211: Call mgd_prep_tx before transmitting deauthentication Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] mac80211: Do not disconnect on invalid operating class Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] mac80211: Fix sending ADDBA response for an ongoing session Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] mac80211: agg-rx: Accept ADDBA request update if timeout did not change Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] cfg80211: read wmm rules from regulatory database Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 13:30 ` Johannes Berg
2018-02-27 22:19 ` Seth Forshee
2018-02-28 8:06 ` Johannes Berg
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] mac80211: limit wmm params to comply with ETSI requirements Luca Coelho
2018-02-19 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] cfg80211: Add API to allow querying regdb for wmm_rule Luca Coelho
2018-02-27 10:39 ` Johannes Berg
2018-02-27 11:38 ` Luca Coelho
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