[PATCH] Roam correctly through cfg80211 without SME

Jouni Malinen j
Sun Nov 11 06:17:23 PST 2012


On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:17:16PM -0800, Christopher Wiley wrote:
> Change the nl80211 driver in wpa_supplicant to correctly handle
> connecting to a new AP through cfg80211 without SME capability.  As
> before, the driver will disconnect from the previously associated AP,
> but now we attempt to immediately connect to our intended AP.  This
> prevents us from blacklisting the AP we were trying to connect to
> because of a semantic mismatch between cfg80211 and wpa_supplicant.  The
> disconnect/connect patch generates a local disconnect nl80211 event
> which we discard because we're already correctly tracking the pending
> association request.

Thanks, applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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