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Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] mac80211: fix association with some APs

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Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:34 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>>  > Some APs refuse association if the supported rates contained in the
>>  > association request do not match its own supported rates. This patch
>>  > introduces a new function which builds the intersection between the AP's
>>  > supported rates and the client's supported rates to work around such
>>  > problems. The same approach is already used in ipw2200 for example.
>>  >
>>  > Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <hschaa@xxxxxxx>
>>
>>  Thanks. Looks ok to me.
>
> Are we sure there is no  firmware with the fix for this AP?

Most probably this isn't the only AP which has a similar bug, so it's
better to add a workaround anyway. Let's just hope that it doesn't
create any regressions.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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