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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: pass up beacons from external BSS when
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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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