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cfg80211: let SME control reassociation vs. association

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Since we don't really know that well in the kernel,
let's let the SME control whether it wants to use
reassociation or not, by allowing it to give the
previous BSSID in the associate() parameters.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2009-07-07 14:37:26 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 2ffa5fede3
commit 3e5d7649a6
8 changed files with 32 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -125,8 +125,14 @@ static int cfg80211_conn_do_work(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
case CFG80211_CONN_ASSOCIATE_NEXT:
BUG_ON(!drv->ops->assoc);
wdev->conn->state = CFG80211_CONN_ASSOCIATING;
/*
* We could, later, implement roaming here and then actually
* set prev_bssid to non-NULL. But then we need to be aware
* that some APs don't like that -- so we'd need to retry
* the association.
*/
err = cfg80211_mlme_assoc(drv, wdev->netdev,
params->channel, params->bssid,
params->channel, params->bssid, NULL,
params->ssid, params->ssid_len,
params->ie, params->ie_len,
false, &params->crypto);