Re: [PATCH] wifi: don't remove AP upon link lost event

[Daniel Drake <dsd laptop org>]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> So the code in link_timeout_cb() only gets run when the wifi device is
> already connected and then somehow gets disconnected.  Were you hitting
> this issue while connected to the AP, getting disconnected, and then the
> AP rejected the reconnect?

You are frighteningly familiar with this code. That is exactly what happens.

> This patch will break the AP-out-of-range or AP-turned-off cases; so
> instead of your patch, does this one fix your issue?  We're already
> tracking whether or not the supplicant can talk to the AP, and the AP
> shouldn't be rejecting you during the AUTH phase, just the ASSOC phase.
> So with this patch, if when the supplicant reconnects it's able to get
> to the ASSOC phase, the AP shouldn't get removed from the list on link
> timeout.

I had assumed that the AP-out-of-range and similar cases would be
handled with a signal from the supplicant saying "BSS removed".
Anyway, your patch works.

Thanks
Daniel