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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: avoid transmitting delBA to old AP

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When roaming while we have active BA session,
> we can end up transmitting delBA frames to
> the old AP while we're already on the new AP's
> channel, which can cause warnings.

when the old AP is on 2.4 GHz and the new AP is 5 GHz.

I'd also add: and in the worst case transmit delBAs on an incorrect channel.

> Simply avoid sending those frames, but still
> tear down the internal session state, since
> they are not really necessary anyway as we
> will implicitly disassociate when sending the
> association to the new AP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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