Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:56211 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753655AbZCYTlL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:41:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] mac80211: beacon filtering From: Johannes Berg To: Kalle Valo Cc: "John W. Linville" , Jouni Malinen , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87eiwl1jo2.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090325_203441_242100_4CF900B0) References: <20090322195619.26460.48292.stgit@tikku> <1237900276.4320.86.camel@johannes.local> <87iqly0ydm.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <1237973445.4320.135.camel@johannes.local> <87eiwl1jo2.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090325_203441_242100_4CF900B0) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-d9QzdrPzQDtQTP0XcJ4t" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:40:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1238010031.4320.164.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090325_204117_704846_3DBB751B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-d9QzdrPzQDtQTP0XcJ4t Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 21:34 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > > 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. >=20 > 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. True. The userspace part is easy to add though, just make it part of the assoc() nl80211 command. So we just need the static list for the mac80211 part. > Do we have any knowledge how different hardware support beacon > checksumming? I only know how stlc45xx does it. Not really... how about wl12xx? johannes --=-d9QzdrPzQDtQTP0XcJ4t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJyoitAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYdr8P/3moGhghnqmGY5VnqlhM+UQP LHSf8VEPN6+Stum83lJItAljyWOFDLnatpaAiqbAa+gj92l0ZS+U/5hXBRkHsVVk +PmLPy+niUs+bkH0zetLR1ECrSrjT67+CRD2Fj2lMvxSRBohS7VCmiV/Tavc4f2x QG9HO5lttQz3CM7CSN/JUzS0HtFyPUr2tVO0Pr7d3E9Uhchj5MRToh+336qGp0TD cZwtfZjHWFl7KDPgdeTMtD4K4unFCWnpjY4Ak9UlIJbyOcvB0R2VgCaybmbqQrP4 S0F5ZVpdz2v8H0CRd+H2sgsU+LomoDaj49F4wVOdMwWn7rt4b4y8/lNbla8pb24z E8UbNll2RYBbRueR3W7w1e9czUCn9BJCQuesI2WUxGa/pl/6nOEnzMZ9+Hoeno9D WyRNCmXBLdOY+lBFJuebbpMWK8TBpE3FmMA1mnG3jy+sTa/KIwxqUKZnhwIFTy3G JyBmpIXwgz915y/YwVln4pucsQezlTYysEBvAel8ahW/Te+t0WM0PDpeR7l3Wfcw JiVRomU0Egf1CnlF8slvlY1P0FhCmBocnM2lh7Q8YnT9A0Ai9jizRQ8IPkGRXmzV iTZ/SQPKr4Uu3E5PT7WqiCP2nNMr2YfvAAz7uwzh+0YwKMBpQ1+4ajJRM6JK9Zk1 t02x2NpEyEZtYkgKemB6 =qU05 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-d9QzdrPzQDtQTP0XcJ4t--