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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: send stop AP event only due to internal reason

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On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 15:33 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> From: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Commit "nl80211: send event when AP operation is stopped" added an
> event to notify user space that an AP interface has been stopped, to
> handle cases such as suspend etc. The event is sent regardless
> if the stop AP flow was triggered by user space or due to internal state
> change.
> 
> This might cause issues with wpa_supplicant/hostapd flows that consider
> stop AP flow as a synchronous one, e.g., AP/GO channel change in the
> absence of CSA support. In such cases, the flow will restart the AP
> immediately after the stop AP flow is done, and only handle the stop
> AP event after the current flow is done, and as a result stop the AP
> again.

Applied.

johannes

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