On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:18:21AM +0530, Nishant Chaprana wrote:
> This event will be sending peer properties to applications for Discovered peers.
> Signature of this event will be "oa{sv}".
> This event is required because current event DeviceFound provides only peer object path.
> If there are many peers in range then there will be many DeviceFound event and
> for each DeviceFOund applicaions would be required to GetAll peer properties
> many time will be creating extra load over applicaiton as well as over wpa_supplicant.
> So it will be better to send peer properties in a event using which applications
> can extract found peer information.
>
> The issue will not be over CTRL interface because P2P-DEVICE-FOUND event sends peer info in it.
> But over Dbus interface DeviceFound provides only peer object.
Thanks, applied.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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