[PATCH] driver_nl80211: implement hapd_set_ssid callback

Johannes Berg johannes
Thu Jan 20 12:46:42 PST 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:17 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 17:55, Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 15:00 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> >> When operating in AP mode, this callback passes the SSID to the kernel
> >> driver.
> >
> > Do we even have kernel functionality for this yet?!
> >
> > johannes
> >
> >
> 
> I'm just about to submit the patches for that.

I see. I don't think this patch is sufficient for hostapd though -- it
will typically generate the probe response on the fly, and it might
contain different data than the beacon -- so maybe we should instead
just give the complete probe response to the driver, and update it
whenever it changes?

johannes




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