Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove "bcn_int" and "capab" scan results
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:57:37 +0100
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> If I understood correctly, the proposed change was removing 'capab'
> information from scan results(?). If that is the case, that would break
> wpa_supplicant network selection since there would be no information on
> whether the network is using encryption or not (privacy flag) and
> whether it is a BSS or an IBSS. Consequently, I obviously continue to
> object this type of change as long as WE is used for getting scan
> results.

Well, wpa_supplicant currently works, right? And this code is never
triggered before the change to remove scan_flags because scan_flags
cannot be set. Hence, I don't see how wpa_supplicant can possibly need
this information.

johannes

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