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Re: [PATCHv2] Revert "mac80211: in IBSS use the Auth frame to trigger STA reinsertion"

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On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 14:20 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This reverts commit 6d810f10325522cfcf498dc6d64b9f96e1f5153f
> 
> In this way an IBSS station will not use the AUTH messages
> to trigger a state reinitialisation anymore.
> 
> The behaviour was racy and was not working properly.
> It has been introduced to help wpa_supplicant to support
> IBSS/RSN, however all the logic is now getting moved into
> wpa_s itself which will also be in charge of handling the
> AUTH messages thanks to the mgmt frame registration.
> 
> If userspace does not register for receiving AUTH frames
> then mac80211 will still reply by itself.
> 
> At the same time, the auth frame registration counter can be
> removed since it is not needed anymore.

Applied.

johannes

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