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Re: cfg80211 question: impedance mismatch of .connect versus .assoc

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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:36 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> While playing with .auth/.deauth/.assoc/.disassoc 
> versus .connect/.disconnect in libertas, I notices two things 
> that makes things a bit hard for me.

> This makes the "iw connect" command only work if an "iw scan" did 
> just take place and I provide an BSS on the command line. 
> 
> So maybe net/wireless/sme.c should be generalized ?
> 
> 
> 
> BSSID for .deauth/.disassoc vs. .disconnect
> -------------------------------------------
> Both the .deauth and .disassoc get the cfg80211_bss entry to 
> deauth / disassociate against.
> 
> .disconnect doesn't get this.

This was intentional, as with ->connect() the driver is supposed to
handle roaming/pre-connect scanning etc. Basically it's mostly for the
case of full-mac drivers that do that in the device firmware.

What you perceive as a "mismatch" is fully intentional, due to the
separation of where roaming is handled.

johannes

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