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Re: [PATCH 10/13] mac80211: set bssid to broadcast before scan

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:24:11 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 14:48 -0400, Michael Wu wrote:
> 
> > --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> > +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> > @@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
> >  	struct ieee80211_hw_mode *oper_hw_mode, *scan_hw_mode;
> >  	u8 scan_ssid[IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN];
> >  	size_t scan_ssid_len;
> > +	u8 scan_bssid[ETH_ALEN];
> >  	struct list_head sta_bss_list;
> >  	struct ieee80211_sta_bss *sta_bss_hash[STA_HASH_SIZE];
> >  	spinlock_t sta_bss_lock;
> 
> Do you see any use for setting scan_bssid to anything other than the
> broadcast address? It doesn't seem useful to add this field here at this
> time.

I agree.

And I'd like to see some way to disable this feature for sane cards.

Thanks,

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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