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On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 00:22 -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
> From: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
> 
> Add logic for parsing tail IEs, beacon IEs, probe response IEs
> and assoc response IEs from cfg80211_ap_settings parameter of
> start_ap handler.
> 
> This patch also implements functionality to retrieve RSN IE from
> tail IE and send it to FW.

This doesn't seem right -- you should use AP SME mode and get much more
detail in other attributes? Look at ath6kl?

johannes