Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:60570 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752238AbZCYTeN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:34:13 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so207305fxm.37 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:34:09 -0700 (PDT) To: Johannes Berg Cc: "John W. Linville" , Jouni Malinen , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] mac80211: beacon filtering References: <20090322195619.26460.48292.stgit@tikku> <1237900276.4320.86.camel@johannes.local> <87iqly0ydm.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <1237973445.4320.135.camel@johannes.local> From: Kalle Valo Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:34:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1237973445.4320.135.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Wed\, 25 Mar 2009 10\:30\:45 +0100") Message-ID: <87eiwl1jo2.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090325_203418_375539_004B47E9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:01 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> > This actually affects the entire stack, take for example the BSS load >> > element, which could potentially change frequently. Unless >> > wpa_supplicant would want to use it for roaming, we could ignore it. >> > >> > However, how do we know which elements the various pieces of the stack >> > need? >> >> I think we can just start with a fixed list and start improving that. >> Or did you think of creating the list dynamically? > > It has to be dynamic, no? Much of the information in there would be > things wpa_supplicant is only interested in. If it was just the kernel > code -- yes, we could just have a static list somewhere -- but much of > the 11k things for instance are only useful for wpa_supplicant. But if we already know what wpa_supplicant needs, can't we do the first implementation with a static list? Sure, the dynamic list is something we should aim for. Do we have any knowledge how different hardware support beacon checksumming? I only know how stlc45xx does it. -- Kalle Valo