On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:04 +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > > 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). Right. > > 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? Yes, but I can just see it coming that the developer has a fullmac card that accepts having no IE and then some users with a halfmac card that needs the IE present is going to crap out. It'd be nice if we could avoid that, but I think we probably can't without much overhead that we don't want. johannes
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