On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This patch has a bug, not all APs answer direct packet in unassociated state I will post another version. Tomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
