From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: inform userspace of probe/auth/assoc timeout
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:01:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ait6s4e.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224186284.11127.3.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 16 Oct 2008 21\:44\:44 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> I noticed that when for some reason [1] the probe or auth times
> out, wpa_supplicant doesn't realise this and only tries the next
> AP when it runs into its own timeout, which is ten seconds, and
> that's quite long. Fix this by making mac80211 notify userspace
> that it didn't associate.
Earlier this week I received an internal bug report about this.
Excellent timing for providing a fix. Thank you, Johannes :)
> Might be worth backporting to stable?
I have to backport the patch anyway so I can provide the patch. But I
don't think this being that important bug to be fixed in stable
series. We have had this bug in mac80211 always, right?
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-19 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 19:44 [PATCH] mac80211: inform userspace of probe/auth/assoc timeout Johannes Berg
2008-10-19 6:01 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-10-19 10:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-19 19:18 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-19 21:35 ` Tomas Winkler
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