From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: Allow a scan request for a specific BSSID
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:11:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457017889.2044.18.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456517569-27235-1-git-send-email-jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 22:12 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> This allows scans for a specific BSSID to be optimized by the user
> space
> application by requesting the driver to set the Probe Request frame
> BSSID field (Address 3) to the specified BSSID instead of the
> wildcard
> BSSID. This prevents other APs from replying which reduces airtime
> need
> and latency in getting the response from the target AP through.
>
> This is an optimization and as such, it is acceptable for some of the
> drivers not to support the mechanism. If not supported, the wildcard
> BSSID will be used and more responses may be received.
>
Applied all three.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-03 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 20:12 [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: Allow a scan request for a specific BSSID Jouni Malinen
2016-02-26 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mac80211: Support " Jouni Malinen
2016-02-26 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mac80211_hwsim: Support a hw " Jouni Malinen
2016-03-03 15:11 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-03-04 8:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: Allow a " Luca Coelho
2016-03-04 9:15 ` Malinen, Jouni
2016-03-04 9:39 ` Luca Coelho
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