Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com ([74.125.82.179]:45261 "EHLO mail-we0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757555Ab3CDUFn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:05:43 -0500 Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id p43so4940888wea.24 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:05:42 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1362409909.21028.17.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> References: <1362204172-28307-1-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com> <1362204172-28307-6-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com> <1362409909.21028.17.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> From: Thomas Pedersen Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:05:21 -0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20130304_210546_307539_9E9C68FC) Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mac80211: init mesh timer for user authed STAs To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@lists.open80211s.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 22:02 -0800, Thomas Pedersen wrote: >> There is a corner case which wasn't being covered: >> userspace may authenticate and allocate stations, >> but still leave the peering up to the kernel. >> >> Initialize the peering timer if the MPM is not in >> userspace, in a path which is taken by both the kernel and >> userspace when allocating stations. > > Shouldn't this patch go to 3.9, instead of being based on userspace MPM? I doubt anyone is even exercising the above scenario, but sure, I can resubmit for 3.9. -- Thomas