From: Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question about cfg80211_inform_bss()
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:42:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACB818F.7000508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910061418.05039.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Holger Schurig wrote:
> However, cfg80211_inform_bss() want's a channel. And it wants the
> IEs as well. A presume it scans those IEs, too. So do we need to
> parse the IEs twice?
That is what orinoco does.
It's slightly worse for non-WPA firmware on orinoco. They supply ssid
and supported rates in a structure, and don't give access to the
original IEs - so the driver has to reconstruct the approporiate IE as
best it can, so cfg80211 can export them (all in orinoco/scan.c).
Dave.
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2009-10-06 12:18 question about cfg80211_inform_bss() Holger Schurig
2009-10-06 17:42 ` Dave [this message]
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