[PATCH] DBus: add ability to report probe requests

Jouni Malinen j
Sun Apr 1 11:16:26 PDT 2012


On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 09:04:48AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Some applications require knowing about probe requests
> to identify devices. This can be the case in AP mode to
> see the devices before they connect, or even in P2P mode
> when operating as a P2P device to identify non-P2P peers
> (P2P peers are identified via PeerFound signals).
> 
> As there are typically a lot of probe requests, require
> that an interested application subscribes to this signal
> so the bus isn't always flooded with these notifications.
> The notifications in DBus are then unicast only to that
> application.
> 
> A small test script is also included.

Thanks, applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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