Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:34072 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754520Ab1ATUwQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:52:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] nl80211: allow passing SSID in nl80211_set_bss From: Johannes Berg To: Arik Nemtsov Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Luciano Coelho , "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <1295555306-20005-1-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com> References: <1295555306-20005-1-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:52:14 +0100 Message-ID: <1295556734.3693.53.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:28 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > wl12xx cards require knowledge of the real SSID when operating as AP > with SSID hidden in beacon data. Allow passing the real SSID from > usermode apart from beacon data. As I also just commented on the corresponding hostapd patch, I'm not sure this is sufficient. If this is necessary for probe response offloading, I'm tempted to say that we should be honest about it and let userspace determine the entire probe response (which will contain the correct SSID) since it can be different from the beacon which presumably you're now using to generate probe responses. johannes