From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
jirislaby@gmail.com, mickflemm@gmail.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
Kishore Ramachandran <kishore@winlab.rutgers.edu>,
Ivan Seskar <Seskar@winlab.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:10:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206201035.GA3229@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890802061033k5ca3e83doca28ca43a5c1830b@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:33:31PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008 11:34 PM, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> wrote:
> > The BSSID generation as a hash from SSID does not sound like something
> > that would match the requirements of IEEE 802.11 11.1.6 ("a number
> > selected in a manner that minimizes the probability of STAs generating
> > the same number") since it is actually maximizing that probablity for
> > the case of same SSID ;-).
>
> Heh, good catch :)
FWIW, that wouldn't be the first time we (i.e. Linux) chose to do
something that did not completely comply with a standard. If it
interoperates with other equipment and is good for users, I don't
think picky standard compliance is worthwhile.
Please note that I am not really taking a stand in favor of this ATM,
only asserting that blind standard compliance is not a good reason
to NAK it IMHO.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 12:52 [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging Bruno Randolf
2008-01-20 10:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-20 10:43 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-21 1:52 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-21 16:05 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-22 19:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-22 19:54 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-22 20:32 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-22 20:51 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-23 1:59 ` [ath5k-devel] " bruno randolf
2008-01-22 23:16 ` Adam Baker
2008-01-22 23:25 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-01-23 14:49 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-24 5:51 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-21 1:57 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-23 14:48 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-23 17:22 ` Dan Williams
2008-01-24 3:49 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-24 3:26 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-24 16:55 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-25 8:01 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-02 23:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-05 1:50 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-05 1:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-06 10:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-06 4:34 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-02-06 18:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-06 20:10 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-02-07 3:58 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-02-08 9:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-12 2:00 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-15 1:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-15 1:40 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-07 3:52 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-02-08 9:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-24 5:43 ` bruno randolf
2008-01-24 8:51 ` Kalle Valo
2008-01-24 14:27 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-24 14:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-01-25 6:16 ` bruno randolf
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-05 11:08 [PATCH 2/2] " Johannes Berg
2008-02-06 2:49 ` [PATCH] " Bruno Randolf
2008-02-06 23:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-08 9:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-02-12 3:25 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-12 9:50 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-14 6:19 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-14 14:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-12 9:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-14 10:19 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-08 9:41 Joerg Pommnitz
2008-02-15 15:09 [PATCH 3/3] " Johannes Berg
2008-02-16 2:29 ` [PATCH] " Bruno Randolf
2008-02-17 9:11 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-18 1:42 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-18 11:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-18 2:03 ` bruno randolf
2008-02-18 11:16 ` Johannes Berg
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