Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: improve IBSS scanning
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
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Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 16:13:06 +0200
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On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:08 +0000, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@...> writes:
> > 
> > Interesting. I guess we never rejected it although it's invalid
> > according to the standard. Yuck. I think I would like to make nl80211
> > reject it, but maybe I'll forget about it and let you use it ;)
> 
> Sorry, I don't know about mac80211. This was more a general point.
> I thought this woudn't work at all but a co-worker was adamant that
> it works fine with Madwifi. So I sat down and observed it with
> a monitoring interface and lo and behold: The beacons really contained
> the broadcast SSID.

Oh ok. I didn't see anything in cfg80211 but will check and post a
patch :)

johannes