Subject: Re: [RFC] carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in
 power-save mode.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:09:02 +0100
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On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:01 +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:

> >> Shouldn't mac80211 transition the sta to "awake" when receiving
> >> auth/assoc frames ?
> > 
> > I don't think so, that would make us send frames to the station it no
> > longer deserves to have. Hostapd should instead delete & re-create the
> > station entry, I think?

> 
> Hostapd already does that¹ ... after the association response is acked.

Ok maybe then we should send out assoc resp etc. frames and not subject
them to PS queueing? Jouni?

johannes