linux/include/uapi
Johannes Berg ea73cbce4e nl80211: fix scheduled scan RSSI matchset attribute confusion
The scheduled scan matchsets were intended to be a list of filters,
with the found BSS having to pass at least one of them to be passed
to the host. When the RSSI attribute was added, however, this was
broken and currently wpa_supplicant adds that attribute in its own
matchset; however, it doesn't intend that to mean that anything
that passes the RSSI filter should be passed to the host, instead
it wants it to mean that everything needs to also have higher RSSI.

This is semantically problematic because we have a list of filters
like [ SSID1, SSID2, SSID3, RSSI ] with no real indication which
one should be OR'ed and which one AND'ed.

To fix this, move the RSSI filter attribute into each matchset. As
we need to stay backward compatible, treat a matchset with only the
RSSI attribute as a "default RSSI filter" for all other matchsets,
but only if there are other matchsets (an RSSI-only matchset by
itself is still desirable.)

To make driver implementation easier, keep a global min_rssi_thold
for the entire request as well. The only affected driver is ath6kl.

I found this when I looked into the code after Raja Mani submitted
a patch fixing the n_match_sets calculation to disregard the RSSI,
but that patch didn't address the semantic issue.

Reported-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qti.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:12 +01:00
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asm-generic Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
drm drm/radeon: expose render backend mask to the userspace 2013-12-23 10:03:43 -05:00
linux nl80211: fix scheduled scan RSSI matchset attribute confusion 2014-02-04 21:58:12 +01:00
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scsi FCoE Updates for 3.9 2013-03-01 09:10:08 +00:00
sound ALSA: compress: add num_sample_rates in snd_codec_desc 2014-01-07 18:33:40 +01:00
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