Return-path: Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.177]:25791 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754919AbYBSWZU (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:25:20 -0500 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1143132ele.23 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:25:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] o11s: mesh interface support for mac80211 From: Luis Carlos Cobo To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <43e72e890802191359o5c6a869i559a4f6aeb686772@mail.gmail.com> References: <47a78212.15588c0a.27b2.61d2@mx.google.com> <1202343188.9965.41.camel@johannes.berg> <1203455604.31736.23.camel@localhost> <43e72e890802191359o5c6a869i559a4f6aeb686772@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:26:52 -0800 Message-Id: <1203460012.31736.38.camel@localhost> (sfid-20080219_222524_437815_49513B05) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:59 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Currently, bss are sorted by ssid, bssid and frequency. > > I wouldn't use "sort" here but instead "are made unique". As John has Right, sorry for the imprecise use of the word. > The key'ing of the BSSes based on BSSID/freq/SSID was just a to deal > with an issue, how about we just detect if a beacon is from a mesh and > if so add it to the list using another type of rule? Since we have no > BSSID/SSID strange issue we don't have to apply that rule there. Sounds good. > > but the user chooses an ad-hoc network), change the type of the > > interface and the proceed to connect. Am I right? > > Hopefully nothing will be added via wext, but instead nl80211/cfg80211. Hopefully, but last time I checked (10 days ago) it looked like there was no work in progress to implement scanning via nl80211. -- Luis Carlos Cobo Rus GnuPG ID: 44019B60 cozybit Inc.