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mac80211: add direct probe before association
authorRon Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:02:19 +0000 (03:02 +0300)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:30:00 +0000 (16:30 -0400)
commit9859b81eaeb8d48563b5fbd90215c0ae606455a3
tree4d4a68d4033801c4a58653634f18eeb8b091aead
parent32ddf0718590f410d5f18cb4fcda419f4aeefc57
mac80211: add direct probe before association

This patch adds a direct probe request as first step in the association
flow if data we have is not up to date. Motivation of this step is to make
sure that the bss information we have is correct, since last scan could
have been done a while ago, and beacons do not fully answer this need as
there are potential differences between them and probe responses (e.g.
WMM parameter element)

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/mlme.c