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From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Vasanth Thiagarajan <Vasanth.Thiagarajan@Atheros.com>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Free current bss information in few places where we don't need it any more
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:13:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211084310.GE6589@vasanth-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234258903.18748.0.camel@johannes.local>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:11:43PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Just a question: was this needed for correctness somehow, or just to
> purge the BSS list a little?

This actually stops choosing the AP to which we were connected and
received deauth(reason=ap moving out)/probe/auth/assoc timeout. By
removing the bss information, scanning is triggered before selecting 
right AP to join upon connection request by setting ssid.

Vasanth


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 12:58 [PATCH] mac80211: Free current bss information in few places where we don't need it any more Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-02-04 14:23 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-10  9:41 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-11  8:43   ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
2009-02-11 14:30     ` Johannes Berg

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