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Re: [PATCH] hostapd: don't try setting the generic IE to the kernel

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:54:18PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> We have no mac80211 drivers that generate beacons themselves
> and would require this, and we also have no way to support such
> drivers currently. Hence, it seems we should remove this to
> decrease the confusion. Since the generic hostapd code actually
> requires a positive result though we cannot just remove the
> implementation. The same information is put into the beacon,
> however.

hostapd_set_generic_elem() wrapper for this driver wrapper function
should return 0 if the wrapper is not implemented (function pointer is
NULL).. Did I miss something or shouldn't we just remove
i802_set_generic_elem() function completely instead of leaving the empty
"return 0" version in?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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