Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:57229 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895Ab1K3Gr4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:47:56 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Cc: "John W. Linville" , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Jouni Malinen , , , Rodriguez Luis , Vivek Natarajan , Balasubramanian senthilkumar , Rajkumar Manoharan Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC] ath9k: validate for non-zero BSSID References: <1322576540-13751-1-git-send-email-mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> <20111130023650.19520.qmail@stuge.se> <4ED5BD76.7020204@qca.qualcomm.com> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:47:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4ED5BD76.7020204@qca.qualcomm.com> (Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan's message of "Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:51:58 +0530") Message-ID: <8739d6gl7s.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (sfid-20111130_074759_486749_AB95FB93) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan writes: > unassociated state for station. > > but I observed this when i tested ad-hoc mode. I just started an > ad-hoc mode creator and left it for some time with no one joining. i > observed there are few frames in rx_tasklet of ath9k driver which seem > to be beacons and their BSSID is '0', as our curbssid is also '0' they > seem to be wrongly identified as 'my_beacons'. This is a perfect addition to the commit log. Remember that the commit log should especially answer the question "why?". -- Kalle Valo