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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS join

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On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:05 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think Johannes is right. If a station receives a CSA and is unable to switch
> to the new channel, it leaves the IBSS network. In this case we don't need to
> keep the BSS entry around, since we proceed to scan again.

Hah, I wasn't paying attention ... yeah I think you're right, it's the
*failure* case, in which we shouldn't care any more. Simon, you were
thinking of the successful case, but that doesn't call disconnect ...

johannes

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