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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211: Allow BSS hint to be provided for connect
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:35:34 +0100
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On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 00:00 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> This clarifies the expected driver behavior on the older
> NL80211_ATTR_MAC and NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ attributes and adds a new
> set of similar attributes with _HINT postfix to enable use of a
> recommendation of the initial BSS to choose. This can be helpful for
> some drivers that can avoid an additional full scan on connection
> request if the information is provided to them (user space tools like
> wpa_supplicant already has that information available based on earlier
> scans).

Applied.

johannes