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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: add direct probe before association

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:07:45AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> This patch adds a direct probe request as first step in the association
> flow. Motivation of this step is to make sure that the bss information
> we have is up to date, since last scan could have been done a while ago.
> beacons do not fully answer this need as there are potential differences
> between them and probe responses (e.g. WMM parameter element)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>

Does this fix a bug?  Seems likely...

John
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