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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fix __ieee80211_disconnect when not associated

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Oh I guess I should read the cover letter too ...

On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 13:34 -0700, James Prestwood wrote:
> A user reported some behavior where IWD hangs expecting another event
> to come and it never does. This was due to the firmware (iwlwifi)
> timing out after authentication and calling __ieee80211_disconnect
> which essentially does nothing if not associated. The problem here
> is userspace expects some event to come after authenticating whether
> it be an association, disconnect, death etc.
> 

Basically I don't understand why userspace expects some event. It asked
for authentication, and you got it. That's all. I don't see userspace
asking for association, or anything else, so what would it be waiting
for?

johannes




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