On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> I would prefer to get all IEs in one blob (assuming WEXT does not have >> >> length limits on this data that could be up to about 2250 bytes long). > >> Would this work with current and older version of wpa_supplicant?. >> I'm concern with backward compatibility, > > Yes, even iwlist handles that fine. In fact, wpa_supplicant simply > concatenates all of them internally, and iwlist just prints each IE it > finds in each GENIE item. One more obstacle > Actually, we do store them in one blob and then hand out pointers to the > various parts. we don't store them as one block we allocate each one separately (ieee80211_sta_bss) so there will be some bigger rewrite of the code than this patch, which I'm a bit reluctant to do...time...bugs etc so what more arguments we have to convince me :) Thanks Tomas > > 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
