Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:33368 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754404Ab2EOOkS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2012 10:40:18 -0400 Received: by qcro28 with SMTP id o28so4183028qcr.19 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 07:40:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1337092228.15553.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <1337091676-29441-1-git-send-email-eliad@wizery.com> <1337092228.15553.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:40:17 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20120515_164030_305950_AFFE2CC3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: retry auth and assoc on error 17 From: Eliad Peller To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:21 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote: >> In some congested environments APs return >> WLAN_STATUS_AP_UNABLE_TO_HANDLE_NEW_STA on auth/assoc >> attempt. Instead of failing immediately, retry again >> in 200 msec. > > I think this should be in wpa_supplicant? > it behaves similarly to WLAN_STATUS_ASSOC_REJECTED_TEMPORARILY, which handled by mac80211, so i thought it would be fine to handle it as well (and this way it can also be used by iw). Eliad.