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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: filter probes in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 10:14 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 14:32 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> >> This patch moves filtering statement from ieee80211_rx_bss_info
>> >> which is called for both beacon and probe to ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp
>> >> and save few cycles in beacon parsing.
>> >
>> > Sounds alright to me, but maybe we should then document that
>> > rx_bss_info() only expects data for the right BSSID?
>>
>> Probes are filtered on destination address not on BSSID, to exclude
>> probe responses not directed to the station.
>> bss_info treats any BSSID this is what creates the bss list after all
>> if I'm not mistaken.
>
> Eh, right, of course, not sure why I got confused there. Still though,
> adding a few lines of comments would be nice. If we did that every time
> we changed a function, we'd have documentation for all functions in no
> time ;) Oh well...
>
I agree, I haven't added any function in this patch so I'm not sure
it's appropriate to add comments within this patch.
The statement I've  moved is already commented.
I can comment the function in a different patch.
Thanks
Tomas
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