Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only
 auth/deauth/disassoc
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:18:14 -0700
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On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 21:53 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
> commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
> user space applications may need to clear authentication or
> association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
> deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
> or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
> allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
> deauth/disassoc operations being completed.

Just a thought ...

mac80211 no longer maintains auth state at all when the auth is not in
process, so should we, instead of passing this all through mac80211,
make it cfg80211-only? Ok that doesn't work for the assoc part, but for
auth it should?

johannes