Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:36371 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752129Ab1AXLed (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:34:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] nl80211: Pass probe response data to drivers From: Johannes Berg To: Arik Nemtsov Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Luciano Coelho , "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <1295816579-28925-3-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com> References: <1295816579-28925-1-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com> <1295816579-28925-3-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:35:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1295868924.3639.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 23:02 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > Allow usermode to pass probe-response data. This data can be used as a > template probe-response offloading. Why use a separate command for this, and not do it like the SSID? I also was under the impression you wanted both (which is somewhat redundant since you can parse the SSID out of the probe response), so shouldn't they both be required (or none, for compatibility)? Also, should cfg80211 pretend it knows the SSID/probe response when userspace didn't set it (from the beacon) so that mac80211 or the low-level drivers don't need to worry? johannes