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| author | Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> | 2009-06-02 18:38:14 -0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-06-03 14:06:15 -0400 |
| commit | 7e189a12c246f55fe087efe345fe5f4cbe0be545 (patch) | |
| tree | d6b0e9618b34eea95e73bd22e6a3bc4eede0ab4f /net/mac80211/sta_info.c | |
| parent | 60fd2b67014440091770ac5738301c7fa4c4159c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-7e189a12c246f55fe087efe345fe5f4cbe0be545.tar.gz lwn-7e189a12c246f55fe087efe345fe5f4cbe0be545.zip | |
mac80211: extend sta kdoc - explain when they are added
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/sta_info.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c index d5611d8fd0d6..a360bceeba59 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ * When the insertion fails (sta_info_insert()) returns non-zero), the * structure will have been freed by sta_info_insert()! * + * sta entries are added by mac80211 when you establish a link with a + * peer. This means different things for the different type of interfaces + * we support. For a regular station this mean we add the AP sta when we + * receive an assocation response from the AP. For IBSS this occurs when + * we receive a probe response or a beacon from target IBSS network. For + * WDS we add the sta for the peer imediately upon device open. When using + * AP mode we add stations for each respective station upon request from + * userspace through nl80211. + * * Because there are debugfs entries for each station, and adding those * must be able to sleep, it is also possible to "pin" a station entry, * that means it can be removed from the hash table but not be freed. |