Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mac80211: wait until completely disassociated
 before new association
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:43:04 +0200
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On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 12:36 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > Come to think of it -- some p2p stuff in the supplicant might time out
> > if we do this,
> 
> Its no different than the case of a DTIM 1 case when we do bgscan
> and need to scan through some passive scan channels.
> 
> > I think we need to cut the drivers/mac80211 some more
> > slack in the supplicant and not assume the remain-on-channel will start
> > quickly.
> 
> Not sure I follow, do you mean that as per API we want to document
> offchannel operation may loose broadcast/multicast data frames?

Never mind ... it's not really related to this issue much. (but no, I
meant that the offchannel operation might not start quickly)

johannes