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Re: Making sense of cfg80211_scan_request.n_ssids

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On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 18:10 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> > Both of those commands result in libertas being called with
> > cfg80211_scan_request with n_ssids=1 and the "test" SSID present in
> > cfg80211_scan_request.ssids[0], as expected.
> >
> >
> >    iwlist eth0 scan
> >    iw dev eth0 scan
> >
> > Both of those commands result in libertas being called with
> > cfg80211_scan_request with n_ssids=1 and a zero-length SSID present in
> > cfg80211_scan_request.ssids[0].
> > Is this a bug? I would expect it to be passed n_ssids=0 in this case.
> 
> I believe n_ssids is the number of probe requests to be sent per 
> channel.  It scanning for all SSIDs, one probe request is sent.  It is 
> only for passive scanning that we don't need any probes.

Yeah. "iw dev eth0 scan passive" will cause n_ssids to be 0.

johannes

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