Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:58688 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758365AbZCYJbW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:31:22 -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: <87iqly0ydm.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090325_100214_789683_0EF6DA0F) References: <20090322195619.26460.48292.stgit@tikku> <1237900276.4320.86.camel@johannes.local> <87iqly0ydm.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090325_100214_789683_0EF6DA0F) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BoDqm900HotSIbbsF+9O" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:30:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1237973445.4320.135.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090325_103126_678770_05D8A95C) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-BoDqm900HotSIbbsF+9O Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > 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. johannes --=-BoDqm900HotSIbbsF+9O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJyfnCAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYA9wQAIEM4BZLw7LvGzndmt+xLXU2 NYvphBWugYfwjgDt/fSSVmimKHNvRZtYZxkV3ttK34DmaYWJeF2s9j/QHvl3AfV0 dtNOxuLAp8PtYK0VeMLolx/X564EyriouhDCADnVEctsJnMq2Cy/lpq7T3jqeW7l fR01TBPmPTaJrzC86I57MZO/wxTq2Fj3W17QjVIUoqAxbdcrGGA1lKYoaPY/NZzl ibzRNxHQNvnsSABk8kTlm15YLJelWAMfGXpeAfWUAQ53pcQZ8PXSIppk2pS1ILWp IvUF6dg3wuEkO8AL9snzU8eniht2HsTmKdblgsSDIhVnzb44hMmB2aqicRnBuTCI 6VjbEXs0UpFIgHuJk950J8vT0jWmKhcKj9U5tTa1gLa3jCWIgqPZhjmhcsb61GsO CK0Wdeo1JVGt/fZHyt7HhH9h8dfBcWtMxSC3JzMX9R/NaXV69w2zHM6Re2B/7JL6 xoGfbtR+wCFoOpa2lBTNCfqx3beKVPLXC5AVDfl3BkBZBSEIEB46MJPHoO50eIDd 4EEb5aHc+KJSE95+jnD4Kg3wlsMXdVclymybueAxaTRPdVdkpqfahwKSkTE6bh8W gpu/LqZQvE3XuryN3eZOjQJmaZTuQ5j0t7661mx1GQZp7ySxCRL3vDaf2vKCeJXl I9qQMz68ZAoheSwmDn3v =C2OP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BoDqm900HotSIbbsF+9O--