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Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mac80211: move RSN IE to tail of mesh beacon

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 17:50 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> The mesh specific beacon IEs go right before the vendor IEs. Add a
>> filter that checks for custom IEs (currently just the RSN IE), which
>> belong after the TIM, but before HT. Also, ensure we don't add any
>> custom IEs twice in mesh_mgmt_ies_add().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> v2:
>>       Ensure room for custom IEs in transmitted beacon (Johannes).
>>       We'll be allocating twice as much space as needed for some IEs
>>       (in tail_len and again ie_len), but it shouldn't be a big deal.
>
> Not that I like allocating twice as much, but I don't really care
> either.
>
> Maybe you should be doing the cleanups in mesh_mgmt_ies_add()
> separately? I'm having a hard time following these changes.

OK, I can factor the changes in this into a single patch.
>
>> +               noffset = ieee80211_ie_split_vendor(ifmsh->ie, ifmsh->ie_len,
>> +                                                   offset);
>> +               if (noffset != offset) {
>
> isn't offset always 0 here? So wouldn't it make more sense to put 0
> explicitly?
>

Sure.

> johannes
>
>
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