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

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

Heh oops typo, I meant "comb".

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

OK thanks.

  Luis
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