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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 14:41 +0100, Wojciech Dubowik wrote:
> There is a regression introduced with this patch.
> On my ath9k AP + ath9k STA I get timeout for
> management frames even when they are acked.
> 
> Attached syslog and iw event before and after
> this patch.
> 
> I have seen it before in my testing and it gets
> a lot worse with system load.  Sometimes it can
> retry auth/assoc frames for 10 seconds before
> connecting.
> Anyway it always looses the first authentication frame.

I think I see what's happening -- can you try this patch?

http://p.sipsolutions.net/61f4271fed0e446b.txt