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

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On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 04:50 +0000, Shajakhan, Mohammed Shafi wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> thanks for your kind review, let me try to find if there is some other way to fix this. if you have any ideas please tell me.

I'm not sure; I think maybe we need to treat the associated case
differently? In that case, we know what the SSID is we're supposedly
connected to, so we could update that entry.

johannes

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