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Re: nl80211 and wext interoperability

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On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 15:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 19:54 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:53 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > Mainly because there's no way to tell WEXT drivers to "stop whatever
> > > you're doing and just be idle"...
> > > 
> > > The supplicant clears out the keys on TERM anyway, and in some cases
> > > (iwlagn) the driver will keep trying to reassociate internally
> > 
> > Seems unlikely, ITYM ipw?
> 
> Nope.  I saw this behavior with iwlagn (both 3945 and 4965) when I was
> doing all that hidden stuff back in April with 2.6.27 kernels.  Might be
> different in very recent kernels?

That doesn't sound right, to the best of my knowledge the _driver_ has
no chance to try to associate, and mac80211 didn't.

johannes

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