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Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] mac80211: ibss: send a probe request instead of allocating station

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On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 14:48 +0200, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When we hear frames from IBSS that we don't have a station
> for, we allocate the station in the RX path with incomplete
> data.
> 
> Instead, send a probe request to the station.
> 
> This helps to solve an issue with iwlwifi, which cannot allocate
> stations in atomic paths, and has the added values of having full
> data of the station and getting rid from some code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I forgot Nicolas' comment about this patch when I sent v2.  So please
don't take this yet (as we agreed) and I'll ask Sari to look into the
issue.

Just for the record.

--
Cheers,
Luca.



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