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Re: [wt PATCH 0/5] libertas: make association work again

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On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 23:07 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> This series makes libertas actually associate with APs after the
> cfg80211 conversion.  There was a pretty big TODO where if cfg80211
> didn't pass in the BSSID of the AP to associate with, then libertas
> would fail because the firmware really, really, really wants a BSSID.
> So lets do a scan to find that BSSID.  The other notable change is
> a fix to make sure all supported rates are included in the firmware's
> association request, lack of which caused some APs to deny the attempt.

I'm a bit tempted to say we could use the connect logic in cfg80211 to
provide this? cfg80211 _already_ provides this if the hardware wants
auth()/assoc() rather than connect() calls, so it seems fairly simple to
also (optionally) do it here?

johannes

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