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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Cassiano Tartari <cassianotartari@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Overload Probe Request to send data
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:53:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289497988.3695.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinDJxnMHEbQjUwWjT2MnW5r7gcxoZW7bZetT7a9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 13:35 -0200, Cassiano Tartari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I'd like to know if somebody could help me giving a way to modify
> the iwlwifi driver to overload the Probe Requests to send data? Which
> file I need to modify, for what word I need search for...

Just give the data to iw in a vendor specific IE and iwlwifi will send
it out. Don't modify the kernel at all.

johannes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 15:35 Overload Probe Request to send data Cassiano Tartari
2010-11-11 17:41 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2010-11-11 17:53 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-11-11 19:18   ` Cassiano Tartari
2010-11-11 20:05     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-11 21:08     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 14:13       ` Cassiano Tartari

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