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Re: [RFC 00/20] mac80211: multi-channel work

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On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 10:58 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote:

> > Now if the supplicant wants to deauthenticate as well, we have no
> > channel context to use for it. We could use remain-on-channel? Or we
> > could create a new channel context? Or just ignore the deauth? I haven't
> > found a good solution yet... We also can't rely on the supplicant always
> > doing a deauth, so we don't want to keep the channel context around
> > until the deauth either.
> >
> > Obviously the same can also happen if the supplicant just asks us to
> > deauthenticate without ever having connected at all, but that's a rather
> > unlikely case.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea? :)
> >
> is it really different from the situation today, when we'll try tx on
> idle device/interface (afaict)?

Well, it is still a bit different, we have no channel at all :)

> this scenario (deauth after disassoc) also sounds pretty unlikely...

It seems that it happens when you ask the supplicant to "disconnect" via
the CLI.

johannes

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