On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 04:11 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > My hacky patch that was rejected on the grounds that it is not right to > introduce the driver dependent behavior might actually be the correct > solution. It just makes the wpa_supplicant_disassociate do both > disassociation and deauthentication, as was always assumed by the > wpa_supplicant core. Jouni just wanted to have what he felt was a workaround in driver_nl80211.c rather than the core code. > Or kernel should became smarter and do the work for wpa_supplicant. I still disagree. Why should the kernel deauthenticate when userspace disassociated. On the other hand, I think Jouni's argument is that you should be able to authenticate (force an auth frame exchange) even while authenticated. I don't really disagree with that all that much, but I'm not sure how to cleanly fit it in. mac80211 would have to reset the auth state without sending a deauth. johannes (NB: I'm off to Japan on Monday. Sorry I've been slow with email, but had lots of stuff to do and then planning the next trip, I hope it'll improve once I return on the 22nd -- well after the weekend then)
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