On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 05:18 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: >> This is totally incomplete: >> >> cfg80211 needs to >> * actually hash on the BSSID instead of putting things into a list >> * provide BSS list functions so mac80211 need not keep track >> * allow a "private" area in each scan result with hw-provided size >> * handle mesh properly >> * provide a way for the hw to limit the number of SSIDs in a scan Don't understand this requirement? * provide a way to limit the number of channels in a scan (for faster roaming candidate search) > > * provide a function to just pass in the whole beacon/probe response > frame and pick it apart itself > * handle aging > * provide a wext "set scan" hook that creates a request and passes it > off to ->scan(), provide wext "get scan" hook > * parse the supported rates into a bitmap like mac80211 does now, based > on the bitrate information the wiphy provides > >> in mac80211, we need to >> * pass the scan request to the hardware offload >> * handle multiple SSIDs in a scan >> * use BSS list stuff cfg80211 needs to provide >> * handle active/passive properly > > * use all those helpers I mentioned above > > Also, we need to think about > * how fullmac stuff can integrate, can it provide this IE-based > information, and if not, is it feasible to just synthesize it? > * whether this should really be per wiphy as it is now, or somehow more > per netdev, or not related to a netdev at all... > > 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
