[PATCH v2] wext: really disassociate

Jouni Malinen j
Tue Feb 10 01:46:12 PST 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:48:25PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Really disassociate when tearing stuff down; drivers may sometimes
> (legally) keep trying to reassociate unless the BSSID is unlocked.  If
> the SSID is unlocked too, under WEXT drivers are able to pick an SSID to
> associate, so kill that behavior by setting a bogus SSID.  Unfortunately
> WEXT doesn't provide an easy method to say "stop whatever doing and just
> idle".

Thanks, applied.

> Until we know whether it's desirable to have MLME(deauth) do the same
> thing, only force disassoc in MLME(disassoc).

We do know ;-), so I made deauth do the same.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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