Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:42093 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756110Ab3CDPLx (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:11:53 -0500 Message-ID: <1362409909.21028.17.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130304_161155_727083_20BB42A7) Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mac80211: init mesh timer for user authed STAs From: Johannes Berg To: Thomas Pedersen Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@lists.open80211s.org Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:11:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1362204172-28307-6-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com> (sfid-20130302_070418_159027_710EC375) References: <1362204172-28307-1-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com> <1362204172-28307-6-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com> (sfid-20130302_070418_159027_710EC375) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? johannes