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Re: mac80211 MLME scanning - BSS list trouble

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> The Beacon frames would probably need to update all <BSSID,*> entries
> for the fields that we decide need to be updated based on Beacons, not
> just the <BSSID,"">... Alternatively, we could change the BSS table to
> have just one entry for each BSSID and a list of SSID entries for each
> BSSID (with SSID, WPA/RSN IE, Privacy flag, etc. from ProbeResp). This
> would be internal to kernel, though, and the scan result would likely
> need to continue showing these as separate "BSSes" even though they have
> the same BSSID.

Oh. Good point. Any comments on Bill Moss's patch though? At least for
the time being that seems like a reasonable thing to do.

> Yeah.. Well, the problem is that no one has asked (as far as I know) for
> this for a real world use case after multi-BSS support was added. Sure,
> this would be nice for testing purposes, but the changes needed for
> multi-SSID support are somewhat complex and would not only require quite
> a bit of work now, but also make long term maintenance take more
> effort..
> 
> I'm not completely against doing this, but this is not exactly on top of
> my to-do list ;-).

Right, makes sense :)

johannes

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