Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:45304 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752788Ab1FTGpq (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:45:46 -0400 Subject: RE: [RFC] cfg80211: skip checking of SSID for maintaining scan list From: Johannes Berg To: "Shajakhan, Mohammed Shafi" Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: References: <1307979580-11360-1-git-send-email-mshajakhan@atheros.com> ,<1308470929.4145.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:45:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1308552341.4322.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20110620_084550_138079_C4439C3B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 04:50 +0000, Shajakhan, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > > when we connect to hidden SSID AP's we maintain two entries > > for the same AP and we update all the parameters for the hidden > > SSID entry rather than the associated entry, this is because we > > have the SSID check in updating/adding new entries in scanlist. > > by skipping the SSID check we will maintain a single entry for > > the hidden SSID and also update the associated entry for the > > same. > > will this break something if I skip SSID check for the sake > > of hidden SSID AP's or is there someother IE's I can check for. > > I think this will break the case where there are multiple SSIDs all > hidden on the same BSSID, which is a configuration that some people use. > > thanks for your kind review, let me try to find if there is some other way to fix this. if you have any ideas please tell me. I'm not sure; I think maybe we need to treat the associated case differently? In that case, we know what the SSID is we're supposedly connected to, so we could update that entry. johannes