Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop

Johannes Berg
2020-06-18T14:18:15Z

On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 14:14 +0000, Shay Bar wrote:
> > Hostapd normally handles that. Are we really so worried about it
> > crashing?
> > johannes
>
> Actually, it's not crashing but WIFI STA keeps sending unicast frames
> to AP such as RTS, BAR, NULL function (no data).
> This is what I want to avoid.
> Its just seems much more clever to let STA know we are down.
> don’t you agree?

We're doing that. More accurately, hostapd is doing that. So what's not
working for you?

johannes