On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Yi, > >> This patch gives the HW the possibility to send direct probes in passive >> channels (as long as traffic was detected in that channel) if such ssid >> was requested, so hidden ssid can be found now in those channels as well. > > this also doesn't sound like a regression to me. Nice to have for sure, > but not acceptable according to the merge window rules. If you cannot scan your AP you also not able to connect to it, drawing your card useless. > Question here is was the driver supporting this before and we broke it > in the 2.6.27 phase or not. Irrelevant, this is fixing show stopper bug. Tomas -- 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
