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Re: [RFC 05/07] mac80211: Purge cfg80211 beacon cache before authentication.

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On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 03:02 +0200, Dmitry Tarnyagin wrote:
> From: Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:15:13 +0200
> 
> cw1200 device requires SSID to be available at AUTH stage.
> cfg80211 beacon cache is designed to handle multi-SSID BSSes, so
> bss struct returned by cfg80211_get_bss() has random SSID if BSS
> just changed SSID before authentication (typical for p2p).
> 
> As a workaround cfg80211 beacon cache is purged to make sure
> target BSS is searchable in rb-tree at the AUTH stage.

Funny, but hell no.

johannes

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