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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mac80211: fix channel assumption for association done work

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On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:33 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Be consistent and use the wk->chan instead of the
> local->hw.conf.channel for the association done work.
> This prevents any possible races against channel changes
> while we run this work.
> 
> In the case that the race did happen we would be initializing
> the bit rates for the new AP under the assumption of a wrong
> channel and in the worst case, wrong band. This could lead
> to trying to assuming we could use CCK frames on 5 GHz, for
> example.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

johannes

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