From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] mac80211: beacon filtering
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:30:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237973445.4320.135.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqly0ydm.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090325_100214_789683_0EF6DA0F)
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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:01 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > This actually affects the entire stack, take for example the BSS load
> > element, which could potentially change frequently. Unless
> > wpa_supplicant would want to use it for roaming, we could ignore it.
> >
> > However, how do we know which elements the various pieces of the stack
> > need?
>
> I think we can just start with a fixed list and start improving that.
> Or did you think of creating the list dynamically?
It has to be dynamic, no? Much of the information in there would be
things wpa_supplicant is only interested in. If it was just the kernel
code -- yes, we could just have a static list somewhere -- but much of
the 11k things for instance are only useful for wpa_supplicant.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-22 19:56 [PATCH v4 0/5] mac80211: beacon filtering Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 19:57 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timer Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 19:57 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activity Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 19:57 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] mac80211: disable power save when scanning Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 19:57 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] cfg80211: add feature to hold bss Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 19:57 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] mac80211: add beacon filtering support Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 20:02 ` [PATCH] stlc45xx: " Kalle Valo
2009-03-22 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] mac80211: beacon filtering Johannes Berg
2009-03-22 20:29 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-24 13:11 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-25 9:01 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-25 9:30 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-03-25 19:34 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-25 19:40 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-25 20:08 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-25 20:17 ` Johannes Berg
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