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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)
commitcf511f97dbc31aedd8e60917747ba291458c4fd4
tree4d4a68d4033801c4a58653634f18eeb8b091aead
parent6aa92de967551b2ec3aba53d97ab193b10eae3e2
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