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Re: HT info in probe requests?

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On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 20:12 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I just found code in iwl4965 to add HT info to probe requests, shouldn't
> >  that also be in mac80211?
> >
> >  Since the probe request building code in ieee80211_send_probe_req and
> >  iwl4965_fill_probe_req are pretty much equivalent, shouldn't we refactor
> >  ieee80211_send_probe_req, export it the probe request building function
> >  and make iwlwifi use it?
> >
> Sounds good to me, but there are little quirks as iwlwifi supports
> scanning with multiple SSIDs in probe
> I would like to very much preserve. This speeds up scanning
> significantly. Hopefully it will be utilized in nl80211.

Can you actually give multiple SSIDs in a probe request though? I
wouldn't think so so you'd just have to give multiple SSIDs to the hw
scan function.

johannes

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