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

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On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 13:30 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 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...

Could, if the AP changes something since we've last scanned, and we
probably want to do this anyway.

johannes

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