On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 20:31 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > > Today, stations are added already associated. That is > inefficient if, for example, the driver has no room > for stations any more because then the station will > go through the entire auth/assoc handshake, only to > be kicked out afterwards. > > To address this a bit better, at least with drivers > using the new station state callback, allow hostapd > to add stations in unauthenticated mode, just after > receiving the AUTH frame, before even replying. Thus > if there's no more space at that point, it can send > a negative auth frame back. It still needs to handle > later state transition errors though, of course. Applied. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
