Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4163 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752201AbYHASDz (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:03:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:30:44 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Tomas Winkler Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net, yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: add direct probe before association Message-ID: <20080801173044.GB14974@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080801_200359_110767_C47D040F) References: <1216076865-9826-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1216076865-9826-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:07:45AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > This patch adds a direct probe request as first step in the association > flow. Motivation of this step is to make sure that the bss information > we have is up to date, since last scan could have been done a while ago. > beacons do not fully answer this need as there are potential differences > between them and probe responses (e.g. WMM parameter element) > > Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler Does this fix a bug? Seems likely... John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com