Yes, I agree.. I thougth the same thing: parsing beacons/probe-response in the driver was also my last resort :) Andrea On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 17:42 +0200, Andrea Merello wrote: > >> About Johannes patch.. Looks good :) But I already tried to do almost >> the same thing in the at79 driver, but I failed, because despite >> setting the single channel and performing a bunch of HW scan (one for >> each ch), it happened that my HW did several full scans disregarding >> the channel setting. > > Well, if it doesn't work we can go back to the mac80211 solution I > suppose. Although the better solution even then might be to at least > detect in the driver that we're in the scan, and then attempt to parse > the DS information in the driver, so that it works regardless of whether > mac80211 has both those long paths or not. That patch would also be > simpler. > > johannes > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
