From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <Rajkumar.Manoharan@Atheros.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: deauthenticate STAs before suspend
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:08:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110131113835.GA14176@vmraj-lnx.users.atheros.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296473261.3812.12.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:57:41PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:36 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > The STA is not deauthenticated before the system goes to sleep,
> > when the vif was configured by iw/iwconfig. This holds the AP
> > resources unnecessarily, till the STA entry got expired in AP.
>
> Is that a big problem? We actually had this intentionally, and we go to
> PS before going to sleep, so if the sleep is very short then we will not
> be disconnected. Also, it's much easier this way to implement WoWLAN.
I looked it as a problem ;) And if we use NM/supplicant, obviously the STA
got disconnected. So just to align with that I sent the RFC.
> > So before going to sleep ensure that all stations
> > got deauthenticated.
>
> Also your text and subject and code is really confusing -- I thought you
> wanted to deauthenticate stations that are associated to mac80211 acting
> as an AP.
I meant that the stations associated in all vifs.
--
Rajkumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 10:06 [RFC] mac80211: deauthenticate STAs before suspend Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-31 11:27 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-31 11:38 ` Rajkumar Manoharan [this message]
2011-01-31 11:47 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-01-31 12:09 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-31 12:00 ` Sujith
[not found] <ce260d15f83b54d9a328a2d636cf9a4e@rss.opera.com>
2011-02-01 10:02 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-02-01 14:37 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
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