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Re: [PATCH 5/5] wcn36xx: pass information elements in scan requests

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On Monday, April 16, 2018 04:03 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> When the ieee8022 core passes IE elements in the scan request, append
> 
> You mean mac80211?
> 
> And yeah, the ieee80211_ prefix is confusing. Many many years I
> started to change that to mac80211_ but gave up :(

Ah, yeah. I was just referring to the wifi core driver stack.

>> them to the firmware message. The driver currently tells the core that
>> it is capable of attaching up to WCN36XX_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN octets, but
>> doesn't actually pass them to the the hardware.
>>
>> Some defines were moved around to avoid cyclic include dependencies.
> 
> Does this fix anything or change functionality somehow? You should
> document that also in the commit log.

I don't have a test case for this, no. But as the change was pretty much
straight forward, I sent it anyway.

I can resend with some more information on this if you like.


Thanks,
Daniel





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