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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:18:30 +0300
From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: sends HT IE to user level through wext
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>> >> I would prefer to get all IEs in one blob (assuming WEXT does not have
>> >> length limits on this data that could be up to about 2250 bytes long).
>
>> Would this work with current and older version of  wpa_supplicant?.
>> I'm concern with backward compatibility,
>
> Yes, even iwlist handles that fine. In fact, wpa_supplicant simply
> concatenates all of them internally, and iwlist just prints each IE it
> finds in each GENIE item.

One more obstacle

> Actually, we do store them in one blob and then hand out pointers to the
> various parts.

we don't store them as one block we allocate each one separately
(ieee80211_sta_bss) so there will be some bigger rewrite of the code
than this patch, which I'm a bit reluctant to do...time...bugs etc
so what more arguments we have to convince me :)

Thanks
Tomas


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> johannes
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