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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: display wext SSID when connected by cfg80211
From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:39:01 +0800
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On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:35 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:27 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I'm lazy to parse the current_bss.pub->information_elements for
> > SSID in the first instance. Should we implement some beacon parsing in
> > cfg80211 or move ieee802_11_parse_elems from mac80211?
> 
> There's ieee80211_bss_get_ie() in cfg80211, which doesn't give you the
> length/data in two separate values, but otherwise behaves pretty
> similarly. IOW, something like
> 
> const u8 *ssid = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(bss /* or &bss->pub */, WLAN_EID_SSID);
> if (ssid) {
> 	ssid_len = ssid[1];
> 	ssid_data = ssid + 2;
> }

Ah, I missed that. Will send out a patch.

Thanks,
-yi