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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS join

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> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 07:24 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> > -	ieee80211_ibss_disconnect(sdata);
> > +	ieee80211_ibss_disconnect(sdata, false);
> 
> I'm not sure why you'd want to have 'false' here? If the network is
> switching channel, then the old BSS entry is useless, no?

In the CSA case the BSS is still used, we modify the BSS entry in 
ieee80211_ibss_finish_csa()  (which is not really clean, but done by all the 
current CSA code).

Since the BSS is changed and the node continues to beacon, I think that's ok 
to do it like Sujith proposed.

Cheers,
    Simon
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