wpa_supplicant over-eagerly blacklisting AP sending PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID?

[Gareth McCaughan]

On 03/02/2016 00:15, Jason Abele wrote:

> This is probably the APs attempting to do some form of "smart" band
> steering or load balancing, I had a similar problem, especially the
> falling off the network completely.
...
> The fix for me was a one-liner to clear the blacklist after any
> successful connection:
> https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=a20a3616
>
> The fix is in wpa_supplicant v2.5

Nice!

Are any problems known or expected if I run wpa_supplicant 2.5
on a machine running Ubuntu 14.04? (I'm thinking that other
system components might have out-of-date expectations about
what wpa_supplicant will do.)

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g