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

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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 :)
>
right, but when the device is idle you are not expected to be tuned to
any channel as well, so it's pretty similar :)

>> this scenario (deauth after disassoc) also sounds pretty unlikely...
>
> It seems that it happens when you ask the supplicant to "disconnect" via
> the CLI.
>
at least in my setup issuing a "disconnect" via the CLI ends only with
a deauth (as the respective code in wpa_supplicant/ctrl_iface.c seems
to call only wpa_supplicant_deauthenticate())

Eliad.
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