Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: create a STA entry for a WDS interface after receiving a beacon

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:48:51PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2011-06-01 2:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:41 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >> On 2011-06-01 1:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >> >  On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:18 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>   >>    >>     >>      >      I don't understand how you can rely on beacons for WDS.
> >> >
> >> >>   Oh, right. I'll send a follow-up patch that forces a WDS to also have an
> >> >>   active AP interface before it's brought up.
> >> >
> >> >  Hm, that might be sufficient, but what if the peer isn't sending
> >> >  beacons?
> >> >
> >> >  Can't we add a station entry and then update it if we receive
> >> >  information from the peer? That'd be more compatible with others devices
> >> >  that don't necessarily have beacons with WDS, and then we wouldn't have
> >> >  to require it locally either (since realistically we might have to
> >> >  interoperate with those anyway?)
> >> What other devices use WDS without beacons? So far I haven't seen any.
> >
> >I don't know, at least older mac80211 could do that?
> In older mac80211 (at least the versions that I tested), WDS was
> completely broken. It also created the station entry without any
> valid rates, and it had no means of updating the supported rates
> list.

Is this settled?  Do we want these patches?

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