From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog104.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.73]:44061 "EHLO na3sys009aog104.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751742Ab1HaIIR (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:08:17 -0400 Received: by mail-ew0-f43.google.com with SMTP id 20so279360ewy.2 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211/cfg80211: add ssid filtering for sched_scan From: Luciano Coelho To: Johannes Berg Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1314777198.4161.20.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <1314707979-26484-1-git-send-email-coelho@ti.com> <1314713812.4011.33.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1314718038.2296.460.camel@cumari> <1314720557.4011.41.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1314770941.2296.507.camel@cumari> <1314771627.4161.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1314775816.2296.531.camel@cumari> <1314776396.4161.19.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1314776962.2296.540.camel@cumari> <1314777198.4161.20.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:08:08 +0300 Message-ID: <1314778088.2296.553.camel@cumari> (sfid-20110831_100822_661247_C70A14FC) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:53 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > I guess the thing to keep in mind is that it's all an optimisation and > if a device can't support certain combinations it doesn't really > matter :) Yeah, it must be clear in the implementation that the device may send things that are not really following the filtering rules. We can't avoid that anyway, because some other entity may start a scan and mangle with our BSS cache. -- Cheers, Luca.