On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:41, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:16:43PM +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: >> The SSID-as-attr not used for the probe-resp template. It is used by >> FW to filter out which probe-reqs should be responded to when >> operating with a hidden SSID. > > OK, that would be useful to mention in nl80211.h comments and > cfg80211.h, too, I'd guess. Sure. I'll put in a few words. > >> The wl12xx FW updates the timestamp and DA. I mentioned in the >> documentation of ieee80211_proberesp_get (and various other parts) >> that the DA should be set manually and that this should be used as a >> template (which also implies timestamp should be set). If some part is >> unclear can you point out a specific patch? > > DA should be pretty obvious. Timestamp is something that I hope is clear > for whoever is implementing a driver, but it could be mentioned > somewhere. Sure. > >> Perhaps we can start with these AP-mode only patches and expand the >> functionality when it is needed for p2p? > > I'm fine with them if there is a capability flag that allows user space > to know that the driver does not use user space -based Probe Request > processing. With that, hostapd/wpa_supplicant can disable functionality > like multi-SSID support, WPS 2.0, P2P until we get more complete > capability information on what devices that process Probe Request frames > internally can do. Makes sense. I'll look into it. Arik -- 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
