> Possibly Johanness refers to the fact that if you use > CMD_AUTHENTICATE, or if you use CMD_CONNECT but the driver implements > the SME -- doesn't use the cfg80211 software SME -- then > cfg80211_disconnect won't do anything if we're not associated, only > authenticated. Currently cfg80211 doesn't have knowledge of whether > it is authenticated and where to. We used to track it, but it was a nightmare and just always buggy :) > With the software SME current_bss would be set from the moment the > authentication attempt starts, I'm almost certain this isn't true, what makes you think so? > so there seems to be an inconsistency > which would affect for example the NL80211_BSS_STATUS_ASSOCIATED > flags in the result of CMD_GET_SCAN. Thus this can't be the case. > Perhaps this can be fixed by always > setting current_bss on auth attempt start, with flags to indicate > whether authentication has happened and whether association happened. No! That would be wrong! > At the very least with this patch if you set the socket owner during > CMD_AUTHENTICATE and then separately associate, you'd get the > expected deauthentication. That would *NOT* be expected. There's no need to even authenticate through CMD_AUTHENTICATE at all to connect to (another) AP! You need to think beyond the 1996 version of 802.11 ;-) johannes
