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Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API

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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 17:53 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > It will pass in a cfg80211_bss structure instead of all those parameters
> > once we move all the stuff into cfg80211.
> 
> This is not mode specific.

Well, the struct isn't but ibss cannot use a bss structure because then
we'd have to fake one without knowing what is around us.

> All members of cfg80211_bss are not known by the user-space without
> scanning. 

Nope. Not the IEs for the locally created IBSS for example.

> I don't like the idea of needing the wpa_supplicant for joining an
> unencrypted network.

You don't need wpa_supplicant, you just need an SME for that. Eventually
we'll implement one in iw.

johannes

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