Re: [PATCH 03/19] wilc: add host_interface.h

[Adham.Abozaeid]

On 10/09/2018 01:02 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 20:01 +0000, adham.aboza...@microchip.com wrote:
>>
>> Do you mean that it can also be used for probing specific networks even if 
>> they are broadcasting their SSID?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> I think this might be a possible case if the user is trying to limit the 
>> scan results to a specific network.
> 
> No. Don't do any filtering based on this.
> 
> Basically the only thing you should do with the (list of) SSIDs is to
> send a probe request containing each of them. Userspace/cfg80211 will
> take care that the usual empty (wildcard) SSID is included in the list,
> so don't send one with that by yourself, just iterate the list.
> 
> If you only support sending one probe request in each scan request, then
> set the max # of SSIDs supported to 1, otherwise set it to the maximum
> (or a reasonable limit like 20 if it's in software).
> 
> johannes
> 
Thanks Johannes. It's clear now.