From: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@googlemail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [wt PATCH 0/5] libertas: make association work again
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:54:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007311554.20888.holgerschurig@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280471706.3710.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
> I'm a bit tempted to say we could use the connect logic in cfg80211 to
> provide this? cfg80211 _already_ provides this if the hardware wants
> auth()/assoc() rather than connect() calls, so it seems fairly simple to
> also (optionally) do it here?
Some months ago I was thinking the same. I thought that the auth/assoc and
connect driver APIs where quite unorthogonal. However, I did not understand
all of cfg80211's state machinery to make the connect branch of the API also
support a BSSID.
If that could be done this way, I'd prefer it over a libertas-internal hack.
Basically we'd need this to be controller from the driver:
do scan before connect
use connect() or auth()/assoc() to connect
That way ...
... some driver can say "no scan, use connect" (orinoco, e.g.)
... or "scan, use connect" (libertas)
... or "scan, use auth/assoc" (mac80211)
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http://www.holgerschurig.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-31 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-30 6:07 [wt PATCH 0/5] libertas: make association work again Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:11 ` [wt PATCH 1/5] libertas: get the right # of scanned BSSes Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:12 ` [wt PATCH 2/5] libertas: better scan response debugging Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:14 ` [wt PATCH 3/5] libertas: better association request debugging Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:16 ` [wt PATCH 4/5] libertas: fix association with some APs by using extended rates Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:18 ` [wt PATCH 5/5] libertas: scan before assocation if no BSSID was given Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:37 ` Johannes Berg
2010-08-04 5:43 ` [wt PATCH 5/5 v2] " Dan Williams
2010-07-30 6:35 ` [wt PATCH 0/5] libertas: make association work again Johannes Berg
2010-07-31 13:54 ` Holger Schurig [this message]
2010-08-04 5:41 ` Dan Williams
2010-08-04 7:46 ` Johannes Berg
2010-08-04 19:15 ` Dan Williams
2010-08-04 19:34 ` John W. Linville
2010-08-05 17:27 ` Dan Williams
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