From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, yi.zhu@intel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: sends HT IE to user level through wext
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:14:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211980492.21624.11.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240805272317t359e79d2xb1913779939ac7c9@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080528_081713_805729_F618BFC6)
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> >> I would prefer to get all IEs in one blob (assuming WEXT does not have
> >> length limits on this data that could be up to about 2250 bytes long).
> Would this work with current and older version of wpa_supplicant?.
> I'm concern with backward compatibility,
Yes, even iwlist handles that fine. In fact, wpa_supplicant simply
concatenates all of them internally, and iwlist just prints each IE it
finds in each GENIE item.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 17:00 [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: sends HT IE to user level through wext Tomas Winkler
2008-05-27 17:04 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-27 17:20 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-05-27 17:24 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-28 6:17 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-28 13:14 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-05-28 14:18 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-28 14:24 ` Johannes Berg
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