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    [MAC80211]: STA reassociation improvements · 8a69aa93
    Daniel Drake authored
    
    
    My cheapy D-Link AP behaves strangely w.r.t reassociations.
    
    The following sequence of commands causes me to lose association and to be
    unable to regain it:
    
    	ifconfig eth8 down
    	ifconfig eth8 up
    	iwconfig eth8 essid <x>
    
    This is because mac80211 tries to reassociate, rather than just associate.
    My AP replies with an association response (not a reassociation response...)
    denying the association with code 12: "Association denied due to reason
    outside the scope of this standard"
    
    mac80211 tries this reassociation another 4 times or so before finally giving
    up.
    
    I see 2 problems here:
     1. bringing the interface down and up again should be resetting interface state
        i.e. after the interface is brought down, it should have no memory of if or
             where it was previously associated
     2. after the first reassociation fails, mac80211 should fall back to
        standard association for the next attempt
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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