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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_ack status for all except probing frames

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On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 20:20 +0000, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > > For steering an idle station from one BSS to another, the steering
> > > application has to know the actual station idle period. But if the
> > > idle period is cleared by ap_max_inactivity, the steering application
> > > cannot steer the station even though the station is not sending or receiving
> > 
> > any data or mgmt. frame.

I guess you want something else. Why even consider a station that's
sending mgmt frames as non-idle?

You can just use the data TX/RX counters to figure out if the station
has been idle.

You've not convinced me that changing the current logic here makes any
sense.

johannes




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