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mac80211: don't try to do anything on unchanged genIE
authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tue, 19 May 2009 20:16:25 +0000 (22:16 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 20 May 2009 18:46:35 +0000 (14:46 -0400)
commit4a9aed70be44f65f38a8186951201480ddc77a4a
tree98e49b3847948e83fafe5cacf69b6ed34891c212
parent8894aa5f1a3f2059370872f20c4f33ababbd056c
mac80211: don't try to do anything on unchanged genIE

When the genIE hasn't changed there's no reason to kick
the state machine since it won't be able to do anything
new -- doing this decreases the useless work we do for
reassociating because if we do kick the state machine
it will try to find a usable BSS but there might not be
one because wpa_supplicant will only change the BSSID
a little later.

In a sense this is a workaround for userspace behaviour,
but on the other hand userspace cannot really keep track
of what the kernel currently has for genIE since any
process could have changed that while wpa_supplicant
wasn't looking.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/mlme.c
net/mac80211/wext.c