From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
<ath6kl-devel@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: Inform bss information to cfg80211 before connect event
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:06:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111205093603.GA3570@chvasanth-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111202114843.GC4358@jouni.qca.qualcomm.com>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:48:43PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> the issue is most likely from the BSS entry getting timed
> out and removed between the operations and the proper fix for this is to
> make sure the entry does not get removed and that should be doable
> without filling it with bogus information.
Do you mean updating aging (bss->ts) related bss information in
cfg80211?, I don't see any possibility to update this information
in bss entry from driver. The bss entry needs to protected with
bss_lock which we can't use from driver.
Vasanth
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-02 9:36 [PATCH] ath6kl: Inform bss information to cfg80211 before connect event Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2011-12-02 10:47 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2011-12-02 11:48 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-12-02 11:52 ` Kalle Valo
2011-12-05 9:36 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
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