> I was thinking about lib80211 this morning too; specifically the code > that everyone has to write to convert local BSS entries into WEXT scan > results. The problem is that drivers have different ideas of what a BSS > is. I think the _first_ thing to do is to define a BSS structure (I > used the ipw2x00 bss structure in libertas when doing this) that all the > fullmac drivers can use (airo, atmel, libertas, orinoco, etc). Then, > each driver can fill out that structure from it's internal scan result, > and hand that off to the lib80211 bss list handling code. We could have > a help that these driver's get_scan calls to convert the internal list > into WEXT scan results. The important thing is getting these drivers to > fill out the common bss structure when their firmware returns a scan > result. We could even make the lib80211 code handle scan result aging > internally. Could have helper functions to allocate and dispose of the > bss list instead of having to duplicate that code in every driver (it's > already in airo & libertas, and I posted a patch that dupes it again for > orinoco). Sounds good though I think this in particular is cfg80211 functionality because over time that will want to export scan results via nl80211 too. johannes
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