Return-path: Received: from 128-177-27-249.ip.openhosting.com ([128.177.27.249]:49813 "EHLO jmalinen.user.openhosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753965AbZBXI64 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:58:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:58:34 +0200 From: Jouni Malinen To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] mac80211: add beacon filtering support Message-ID: <20090224085834.GA10851@jm.kir.nu> (sfid-20090224_095859_101697_BCAA338E) References: <20090223163626.20939.4879.stgit@tikku> <20090223163738.20939.25890.stgit@tikku> <43e72e890902230947x6e55bf36ve715295f43f74fbb@mail.gmail.com> <87prh9ht22.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <43e72e890902231111g3705c5bh445e3317de5967f3@mail.gmail.com> <87bpst7xxd.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <43e72e890902232046v3c785a01s42e411e47a22288f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <43e72e890902232046v3c785a01s42e411e47a22288f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:46:59PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > How does the hardware deal with IEs that may change order? I am not > sure how common this is but I do wonder. There are no such IEs; there is an explicit requirement for the order of IEs in the Beacon frames. Or well, the last slot is for vendor specific stuff, but anyway, I would agree with Johannes on someone changing the order of IEs in Beacons to be quite idiotic. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA