From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net, yi.zhu@intel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: add direct probe before association
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:30:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801173044.GB14974@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216076865-9826-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:07:45AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> This patch adds a direct probe request as first step in the association
> flow. Motivation of this step is to make sure that the bss information
> we have is up to date, since last scan could have been done a while ago.
> beacons do not fully answer this need as there are potential differences
> between them and probe responses (e.g. WMM parameter element)
>
> Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Does this fix a bug? Seems likely...
John
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John W. Linville
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 23:07 [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: add direct probe before association Tomas Winkler
2008-07-15 8:18 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-15 8:31 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-15 8:37 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-16 13:11 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-16 13:20 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-16 13:31 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-08-01 17:30 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-08-01 18:06 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-01 19:25 ` Tomas Winkler
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