netdev - Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Report connected BSS with cfg80211_connect

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Date:   Mon,  8 Feb 2021 11:17:44 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org>,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@....com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Report connected BSS with cfg80211_connect_bss()

Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org> wrote:

> When a network is moved or reconfigured on the different channel, there
> can be multiple BSSes with the same BSSID and SSID in scan result
> before the old one expires. Then, it can cause cfg80211_connect_result
> to map current_bss to a bss with the wrong channel.
> 
> Let mwifiex_cfg80211_assoc return the selected BSS and then the caller
> can report it cfg80211_connect_bss.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

b7fd26c913f1 mwifiex: Report connected BSS with cfg80211_connect_bss()

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