From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Allow multiple STA connected to same AP.
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:37:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <848696fe638aa1c29d8420fc9186fee9@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C89B98F.3090000@candelatech.com>
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:52:31 -0700, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
wrote:
> After some more debugging, it seems at least part of the problem is that
> ath9k uses ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic to determine which
> MACs to add to the BSSID mask. But, before things are associated
properly,
> sdata isn't 'running', so ath9k doesn't calc the mask properly.
>
> Looks a bit like chicken-and-egg issue, and for some reason, it doesn't
> seem to happen with WPA (but then, WPA doesn't authenticate properly
> either).
>
> Maybe a new iterator is needed to get interfaces that want to go active
> (maybe by determining if sdata->dev is 'UP') ?
Err, that's exactly what the active interfaces iterator does. sdata is
in fact 'running' as soon as the interface is UP.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-09 22:03 RFC: Allow multiple STA connected to same AP Ben Greear
2010-09-09 22:51 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-09 23:01 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-09 23:08 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-10 4:52 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-10 16:37 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-09-10 16:52 ` Ben Greear
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