From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@Atheros.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>,
Amod Bodas <Amod.Bodas@Atheros.com>,
Vasanth Thiagarajan <Vasanth.Thiagarajan@Atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211: fix rate_control_send_low warnings for delbas
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:39:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101004203900.GA14524@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101004173507.GN2105@tux>
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:35:07AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I was wondering if actively disassociating might help with a smoother
> transition. I was under this why we were doing this in the first place.
> I frankly do not know, but if it does not help then I do agree with
> your patch replacement.
In many cases, it may end up harming more than helping.. At minimum, it
takes some time to transmit the frame (and do the channel changes, if
needed). Furthermore, this makes it more difficult for centrally managed
networks to optimize roaming since we would be disassociating and
associating as a new association instead of doing proper re-association.
In such networks, the APs (or well, likely some sort of central manager)
takes care of clearing the old association when the reassociation is
being processed. In addition, this could potentially tunnel some frames
through the new AP or at least make sure that bridge tables gets
updated.
--
Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-01 20:33 [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211: fix rate_control_send_low warnings for delbas Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-01 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mac80211: fix channel assumption for association done work Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 13:12 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-01 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mac80211: wait until completely disassociated before new association Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 13:14 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 16:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 16:39 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 18:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 18:44 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 20:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 7:59 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-05 19:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 19:43 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-01 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mac80211: move to the home channel for disassociation when roaming Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 13:15 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 16:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 16:41 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 17:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 18:39 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 21:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211: fix rate_control_send_low warnings for delbas Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 13:27 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 16:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 16:42 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 17:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 17:30 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 17:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 18:39 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-04 20:39 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2010-10-04 21:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-04 22:47 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-10-04 23:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 7:57 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-05 17:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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