From: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.b.bhushan@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ssid
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:55:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9360e520912072025y6dc1d0a1yf36e39cd643a89b3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260169635.13866.3.camel@johannes.local>
thank you sir ,i will discuss this with my colleagues here and will
send accross patch.
bharat
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This change happened because no driver required the SSID, and many
> drivers were using it incorrectly. I'd be happy to add it back for an
> in-kernel driver where I can see that it is needed, but _very_ reluctant
> to do it for a driver I've never seen. So please add it back in a patch
> that you use for development, finish your driver, and then when it comes
> time to post your driver upstream you can also post the relevant
> mac80211 patch. Oh also please don't develop against 2.6.29, it is
> _ancient_.
>
> johannes
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:51 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
>> hello gentlemen,
>>
>> i am trying to implement an open source mac
>> base driver with kernel base version 2.6.29, for association
>> completion my hardware requires an api with ssid to be sent. but i
>> could not find any api from mac80211.h which contain ssid element
>> except hw_scan which i cannot use as ssid should be sent before
>> association ,few days back i implement the same driver with kernel
>> version 2.6.27 and i use to get ssid in ieee80211_if_conf structure in
>> config_interface api but now this is deprecated , any particular
>> reason why this change happen, is there any other way i can get ssid
>> through any interface.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> bharat
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2009-12-07 6:21 ssid Bharat Bhushan
2009-12-07 7:07 ` ssid Johannes Berg
2009-12-08 4:25 ` Bharat Bhushan [this message]
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