From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: filter probes in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:14:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808050014t6e315fe5s607aff1656c1f8d1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217787259.4721.18.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 14:32 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> This patch moves filtering statement from ieee80211_rx_bss_info
>> which is called for both beacon and probe to ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp
>> and save few cycles in beacon parsing.
>
> Sounds alright to me, but maybe we should then document that
> rx_bss_info() only expects data for the right BSSID?
Probes are filtered on destination address not on BSSID, to exclude
probe responses not directed to the station.
bss_info treats any BSSID this is what creates the bss list after all
if I'm not mistaken.
Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-03 11:32 [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: filter probes in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp Tomas Winkler
2008-08-03 18:14 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-05 7:14 ` Tomas Winkler [this message]
2008-08-05 9:09 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-05 15:21 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-08-05 15:27 ` Johannes Berg
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