On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 22:06 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > We cannot currently hand off extra IEs to hw_scan, so reject > > configuring extra IEs for probe response frames when hw_scan > > is set. > > Assuming this was for probe request.. Yeah, it was meant to, but I screwed up. > I'm actually planning on adding > support to pass the extra IEs into hw_scan handler, so that would need > to revert this type of patch for probe req should one make in. Anyway, > that will also make it more difficult to figure out whether the IEs can > actually be added since the driver would need to somehow indicate > whether it supports this or not. Since I've posted my cfg80211 scan work, and I guess it'll go in, how about instead extending that to pass in IEs? The scan request struct is already passed down from cfg80211 through mac80211 to drivers, so anything in there would be available to drivers too. johannes
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