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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP side

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On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:34 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:25:44AM +0400, Igor Perminov wrote:
> 
> > At the step 4 the AP "remembers" the STA and considers it is still in
> > the PS state, so the AP buffers frames, which it has to send to the STA.
> > But the STA isn't actually in the PS state and so it neither checks
> > TIM bits nor reports to the AP that it isn't power saving.
> > Because of that authentication/[re]association fails.
> > 
> > To fix authentication/[re]association stage of this issue, Auth, Assoc
> > Resp and Reassoc Resp frames are transmitted disregarding of STA's power
> > saving state.
> 
> That looks fine to me and should be applied.

Alright, I'll take back my NACK then, just thought it'd be easier to do
the cleanup in the same patch but I can also do it separately.

johannes

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