Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:33 +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > >> We certainly need the individual settings. It is nice that >> wpa_supplicant generates the IE - it saved me writing the code - but >> that's just being lazy. We still have to modify the IE anyway to add WMM >> stuff. >> > Do I read that as "I don't care if we get the IE"? > We can build it into the driver if we have to :) > Putting the IE there has the advantage that you can easily play with new > things for cards that use the IE by sticking a few more IEs into the > attribute. I agree. Forming the MLME requests, including the IE, is really the role of the userland app (the SME in IEEE802.11 speak). > But it has the disadvantage that cards behave differently if > you give them contradictory settings. Maybe we need a way to ask a card > which one it wants. > Is that just a case of garbage-in-garbage-out? Mark To access the latest news from CSR copy this link into a web browser: http://www.csr.com/email_sig.php To get further information regarding CSR, please visit our Investor Relations page at http://ir.csr.com/csr/about/overview - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
