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Re: [RFC] cfg80211: skip checking of SSID for maintaining scan list

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On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 21:09 +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> when we connect to hidden SSID AP's we maintain two entries
> for the same AP and we update all the parameters for the hidden
> SSID entry rather than the associated entry, this is because we
> have the SSID check in updating/adding new entries in scanlist.
> by skipping the SSID check we will maintain a single entry for
> the hidden SSID and also update the associated entry for the
> same.
>   will this break something if I skip SSID check for the sake
> of hidden SSID AP's or is there someother IE's I can check for.

I think this will break the case where there are multiple SSIDs all
hidden on the same BSSID, which is a configuration that some people use.

johannes

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