From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Jouni Malinen" <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace client MLME and BSSID-mismatch filtering for scans
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:35:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808190535g513cd0das37f436e756d0bc60@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080818190829.GB4809@jm.kir.nu>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:47:42PM +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>> I'm trying to get userspace client MLME working again and the next
>> blocker seems to be in Probe Response frames being dropped during
>> scanning
>
> I got the userspace client MLME working with the current wpa_supplicant
> 0.6.x git version and using -Dnl80211. mac80211 needs two changes for
> this to work: cfg80211 vif configuration option for enabling userspace
> MLME (I'll send an updated patch for this) and workaround/fix for
> ProbeResp frames (BSSID-mismatch) dropping during scan (works with the
> patch I sent in the previous message in this thread or alternatively,
> could add a mechanism for letting mac80211 know when userspace MLME is
> doing scanning if that is considered more preferable; that extension
> would add on top of the vif configuration patch to bring in extra
> parameters for indicating scan state).
>
What are benefits this type of scanning? Is this sultion you are
looking for or this just should bridge temporal lack of nl80211 API
for scanning?
Thanks
Tomas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-18 16:47 Userspace client MLME and BSSID-mismatch filtering for scans Jouni Malinen
2008-08-18 19:08 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-08-19 12:35 ` Tomas Winkler [this message]
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