John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It seems like proper etiquette to let other stations know when we are > going down in either STA or IBSS mode. This also notifies userland, so > wpa_supplicant doesn't get confused. I noticed a problem while I was testing my dynamic power save patches, power save settings were not correctly sent to the driver because ieee80211_stop() didn't notify mlme. I think this patch will fix this but I didn't test it, yet. > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/mac80211/iface.c | 3 +++ > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c > index 4608212..b557250 100644 > --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c > +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c > @@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ static int ieee80211_stop(struct net_device *dev) > break; > case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: > case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: > + /* Announce that we are leaving the network. */ > + ieee80211_sta_deauthenticate(dev, WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING); > + > sdata->u.sta.state = IEEE80211_STA_MLME_DISABLED; I think manually setting u.sta.state can be removed now because ieee80211_sta_deauthenticate() calls ieee80211_set_disassoc() which again has this: if (self_disconnected || reason == WLAN_REASON_DISASSOC_STA_HAS_LEFT) ifsta->state = IEEE80211_STA_MLME_DISABLED; -- Kalle Valo -- 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
