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Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] mac80211: beacon filtering

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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 21:34 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:

> > It has to be dynamic, no? Much of the information in there would be
> > things wpa_supplicant is only interested in. If it was just the kernel
> > code -- yes, we could just have a static list somewhere -- but much of
> > the 11k things for instance are only useful for wpa_supplicant.
> 
> But if we already know what wpa_supplicant needs, can't we do the
> first implementation with a static list? Sure, the dynamic list is
> something we should aim for.

True. The userspace part is easy to add though, just make it part of the
assoc() nl80211 command. So we just need the static list for the
mac80211 part.

> Do we have any knowledge how different hardware support beacon
> checksumming? I only know how stlc45xx does it.

Not really... how about wl12xx?

johannes

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