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Subject: Re: Question on "mac80211: HE STA disassoc due to QOS NULL not sent"
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 16:23 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> While debugging a station polling issue.  Should it maybe send
> a probe request instead of just not probing at all?
> 
> commit f39b07fdfb688724fedabf5507e15eaf398f2500
> Author: Shay Bar <shay.bar@celeno.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 3 16:18:48 2019 +0300
> 
>      mac80211: HE STA disassoc due to QOS NULL not sent
> 
>      In case of HE AP-STA link, ieee80211_send_nullfunc() will not
>      send the QOS NULL packet to check if AP is still associated.

Quite possibly we should just fix this - I think there was a recent
discussion on that here on the list?

johannes