On 6/4/13 5:29 PM, "Johannes Berg" <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 17:03 +0300, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
>
>> And, probes must be reported to the host in all cases, for wpa_s to
>>have peer list.
>> Need to add comment describing this.
>
>I don't think that's necessarily true. wpa_s will pre-build a list, but
>note that it doesn't make those peers as discovered and you can't really
>do anything with them. As such, I would argue that reporting probe
>requests ("probes") would be harmful and counter to one potential goal
>of this patch (powersaving.)
In general, I'd agree. However, I would like to get information of any
peer device being in active PBC mode. This would require either getting
those Probe Request frames or alternatively that being tracked in
kernel/driver/firmware with some access for wpa_supplicant to fetch
information of all STAs (list of MAC Address + UUID) that have indicated
active PBC mode within last 120 seconds.
- Jouni
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