Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Fix IBSS disconnect

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On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 14:17 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, when a station leaves an IBSS network, the
> corresponding BSS is not dropped from cfg80211 if there are
> other active stations in the network. But, the small
> window that is present when trying to determine a station's
> status based on IEEE80211_IBSS_MERGE_INTERVAL introduces
> a race.
> 
> Instead of trying to keep the BSS, always remove it when
> leaving an IBSS network. There is not much benefit to retain
> the BSS entry since it will be added with a subsequent join
> operation.
> 
> This fixes an issue where a dangling BSS entry causes ath9k
> to wait for a beacon indefinitely.

Applied.

johannes

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