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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix offchannel assumption upon association

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On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 21:59 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Association is dealt with as an atomic offchannel operation,
> we do this because we don't know we are associated until we
> get the associatin response from the AP. When we do get the
> associatin response though we were never clearing the offchannel
> state. This has a few implications, we told drivers we were
> still offchannel, and the first configured TX power for the
> channel does not take into account any power constraints.
> 
> For ath9k this meant ANI calibration would not start upon
> association, and we'd have to wait until the first bgscan
> to be triggered. There may be other issues this resolves
> but I'm too lazy to colb the code to check.

colb?

But anyway, looks OK to me. Need to revisit some of the off-channel
stuff eventually, but for now this is fine I think.

johannes

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