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Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: cfg80211: Reject (re-)association to the same BSSID

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On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 16:57 -0600, Kevin Lund wrote:
> Within cfg80211_connect, reject the (re-)association request if we are
> already connected to the exact BSSID which is being requested. This
> prevents an unnecessary attempt to connect which in the best case
> leaves us back where we started.
> 
> There is precedent for behaving this way over on the userspace SME side
> of things in cfg80211_mlme_auth. Further, cfg80211_connect already makes
> several basic checks to ensure the connection attempt is reasonable, so
> this fits in that context.
> 

I don't think this is right - we should be able to reassoc back to the
same AP in some cases, for example in 11be this comes up when you want
to change the negotiated links.

johannes




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