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Re: [PATCH 1/3] nl80211: allow passing SSID in nl80211_set_bss

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 22:52, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As I also just commented on the corresponding hostapd patch, I'm not
> sure this is sufficient. If this is necessary for probe response
> offloading, I'm tempted to say that we should be honest about it and let
> userspace determine the entire probe response (which will contain the
> correct SSID) since it can be different from the beacon which presumably
> you're now using to generate probe responses.
>

Well the SSID is still needed in its pure form (i.e. not bundled up
inside some skb). The FW needs it in order to decide which probe
requests it will respond to in hidden-SSID mode.
You're talking about adding another set_probe_resp() callback from
hostapd. That makes sense. I'll look into it.

In the meanwhile are there any comments for this portion?

Regards,
Arik
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