hi Dmitry, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Dmitry Tarnyagin <abi.dmitryt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 15:00 +0100, Dmitry Tarnyagin wrote: > >>> The patch implements linked list of aliases for bss (alias is a bss >>> with the same key information but with different ESSID). >> >> I think you mean here not "different SSID", but "possibly hidden SSID"? >> Otherwise the code doesn't make much sense -- if the SSID is really >> incompatible it doesn't seem to get stuffed into the same node? >> > I'm trying to address 3 different but similar scenarios: > 1. Hidden AP, has different SSID in beacons (empty) and probe responses (real); > 2. Changing of SSID of an existing AP (in some moment 2 aliases with > different SSID in both beacon and probe resp exist in the bss list); > 3. (hypothetical) real multi-ssid AP with permanent set of 2 or more > different ies sets. > are you going to resubmit this RFC as a proper patch? in wl12xx we sometimes encounter the case in which we get the hidden beacon only after the probe response, which prevents us from entering psm. this patch seems to fix it (although, as Johannes noted, you might want to add some checks to validate this is actually a hidden ssid). thanks, Eliad. -- 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
