Re: [virtual-sta 3/3] mac80211: Allow multiple STA on same BSS.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/10/2010 03:44 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2010-09-10 3:04 PM, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> When adding an STA, the old code checked if there was already
>> an STA with the same BSS.  Instead, check to see if there is
>> exactly the same STA in order to allow multiple STA to be
>> associated with the same AP.
> I think that's misleading. sta_info_get_bss does not check if there is a
> STA with the same BSS. Like sta_info_get it looks for a STA with the
> given address, but unlike sta_info_get, it also accepts it if it's on a
> different interface than the provided sdata, but part of the same BSS as
> the sdata's.
> Because of that, this change seems bogus to me.

W/out this change, I cannot get a second STA to associate with
the AP because that code returns EBUSY, because the
first STA and second STA point to the same bss.

There could be a better way to do what I'm trying to do,
but that one-line patch made it work for me.  I'll be happy
to try alternative suggestions.

Thanks,
Ben

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