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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix WARN_ON for re-association to the expired BSS

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Hi Johannes,

Are there any update about my arguments?

Thanks,
UjjaL Roy


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Ujjal Roy <royujjal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, can you please tell me what type of bugs or what bugs the cfg80211
> going to catch? As I see cfg80211 allows re-assoc command and the
> driver is able to get a BSS using the function cfg80211_get_bss(). So,
> the driver is going to re-associate and the result is a Kernel warning.
> At this point driver's internal association is successful though.
>
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:01 +0530, Ujjal Roy wrote:
>>> cfg80211 allows re-association in managed mode and if a user
>>> wants to re-associate to the same AP network after the time
>>> period of IEEE80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE, cfg80211 warns with
>>> the following message on receiving the connect result event.
>>
>> This behaviour is intentional to point out driver bugs. I'm not applying
>> this.
>>
>> johannes
>>
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