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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: only roll back station states for WDS when suspending

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On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 22:28 +0200, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In the suspend code, we shouldn't roll back the station states because
> this is taken care of in other parts of the code, except for WDS
> interfaces.  For AP types of interfaces, cfg80211 takes care of
> disconnecting all stations before calling the driver's suspend code.
> For station interfaces, this will be done in the quiesce code.

That's actually correct only in the corner case of ongoing
authentication or association - in the common case of being associated
while suspending it's also handled by cfg80211. Similarly, of course,
for mesh and IBSS.

Would perhaps be worth mentioning that here.

johannes

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