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Re: [RFC] cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc

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On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 19:13 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:18:14PM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > mac80211 no longer maintains auth state at all when the auth is not in
> > process, so should we, instead of passing this all through mac80211,
> > make it cfg80211-only? Ok that doesn't work for the assoc part, but for
> > auth it should?
> 
> I thought about that a bit when going through the needed changes and the
> question of what to do with key configuration before association.. If we
> want to enable that optimization, we will likely need to notify mac80211
> somehow and this auth part could indeed be that notification. Or did you
> have some other ways in mind for getting keys configured
> pre-association?

Ah, that's a good point. No, I hadn't really thought about the
implications yet.

johannes

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