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Re: [PATCH 3.11] mac80211: ignore HT primary channel while connected

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On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 11:50 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> While we're connected, the AP shouldn't change the primary channel
> in the HT information. We checked this, and dropped the connection
> if it did change it.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is causing problems on some APs, e.g. on the
> Netgear WRT610NL: the beacons seem to always contain a bad channel
> and if we made a connection using a probe response (correct data)
> we drop the connection immediately and can basically not connect
> properly at all.
> 
> Work around this by ignoring the HT primary channel information in
> beacons if we're already connected.
> 
> Also print out more verbose messages in the other situations to
> help diagnose similar bugs quicker in the future.

Applied.

johannes

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