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Re: [RFC] mac80211: deauthenticate STAs before suspend

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:57:41PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:36 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > The STA is not deauthenticated before the system goes to sleep,
> > when the vif was configured by iw/iwconfig. This holds the AP
> > resources unnecessarily, till the STA entry got expired in AP.
> 
> Is that a big problem? We actually had this intentionally, and we go to
> PS before going to sleep, so if the sleep is very short then we will not
> be disconnected. Also, it's much easier this way to implement WoWLAN.
I looked it as a problem ;) And if we use NM/supplicant, obviously the STA
got disconnected. So just to align with that I sent the RFC.

> > So before going to sleep ensure that all stations
> > got deauthenticated.
> 
> Also your text and subject and code is really confusing -- I thought you
> wanted to deauthenticate stations that are associated to mac80211 acting
> as an AP.
I meant that the stations associated in all vifs.

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