From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: pass up beacons from external BSS when operating as AP
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:52:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296571973.3989.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110201145100.GA21686@jm.kir.nu>
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:51 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:56:54PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 13:23 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> > > Beacons from external BSSes are required for updating overlapping BSS
> > > info (i.e. ERP protection). Pass them up unconditionally.
> >
> > Where will they be processed though?
>
> In src/ap/ap_list.c (hostap.git) ;-)
>
> This code has been there for a long time, but the functionality was
> broken at some point (maybe already during d80211 -> mac80211 process)
> due to the beacons not getting delivered there anymore.
Oh, I guess then they are delivered via the monitor interface?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 11:23 [PATCH] mac80211: pass up beacons from external BSS when operating as AP Arik Nemtsov
2011-02-01 13:56 ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-01 14:51 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-01 14:52 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-02-01 14:56 ` Jouni Malinen
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