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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Provision to pass probe response ie along with remain on channel request

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On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 13:04 +0530, Sreenath Sharma wrote:
> The probe response ie should be set in driver before the listen state
> for a listen only P2P device. Right now probe response ie is set using
> driver specific private command implementations. This commit enhances the
> remain_on_channel command handler to pass probe response ie along with
> rest of the arguments.
> 
> Another approach is the addition of a new nl80211 command specific to pass
> ies to driver. This will give more flexibilty to upper layer.

Umm, no, nack. this is totally bogus. You're implementing something like
"P2P-listen offload" but hiding it inside the "remain-on-channel"
command. That's totally the wrong way to go about it.

NACK. Not going to accept this.

johannes

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