thank you sir ,i will discuss this with my colleagues here and will send accross patch. bharat On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This change happened because no driver required the SSID, and many > drivers were using it incorrectly. I'd be happy to add it back for an > in-kernel driver where I can see that it is needed, but _very_ reluctant > to do it for a driver I've never seen. So please add it back in a patch > that you use for development, finish your driver, and then when it comes > time to post your driver upstream you can also post the relevant > mac80211 patch. Oh also please don't develop against 2.6.29, it is > _ancient_. > > johannes > > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:51 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote: >> hello gentlemen, >> >> i am trying to implement an open source mac >> base driver with kernel base version 2.6.29, for association >> completion my hardware requires an api with ssid to be sent. but i >> could not find any api from mac80211.h which contain ssid element >> except hw_scan which i cannot use as ssid should be sent before >> association ,few days back i implement the same driver with kernel >> version 2.6.27 and i use to get ssid in ieee80211_if_conf structure in >> config_interface api but now this is deprecated , any particular >> reason why this change happen, is there any other way i can get ssid >> through any interface. >> >> >> >> Any help is much appreciated. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> bharat >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- 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
