From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] mac80211: add beacon filtering support
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:58:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090224085834.GA10851@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890902232046v3c785a01s42e411e47a22288f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:46:59PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> How does the hardware deal with IEs that may change order? I am not
> sure how common this is but I do wonder.
There are no such IEs; there is an explicit requirement for the order of
IEs in the Beacon frames. Or well, the last slot is for vendor specific
stuff, but anyway, I would agree with Johannes on someone changing the
order of IEs in Beacons to be quite idiotic.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-23 16:37 [RFC PATCH v1 0/3] mac80211: beacon filtering Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 16:37 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/3] mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timer Kalle Valo
2009-02-24 2:13 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 18:40 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 16:37 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activity Kalle Valo
2009-02-24 2:15 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 18:52 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 16:37 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] mac80211: add beacon filtering support Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 17:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-23 19:06 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 19:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-23 19:31 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 19:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-24 4:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-24 5:17 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 8:58 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2009-02-24 2:18 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 20:34 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-24 2:20 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 9:01 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-24 18:36 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-24 18:43 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-24 19:02 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-24 18:30 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-23 17:15 ` [PATCH] stlc45xx: " Kalle Valo
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