On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:38:50PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:12 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > Jouni Malinen wrote :
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:16:04PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > That's why wireless-tools and Wireless Extensions switched to
> > > > passive scanning.
> > >
> > > Can you please point to some documentation/email thread/etc. describing
> > > this preference to use passive scanning? I was not aware of such a
> > > preference and have assumed that active scanning would be the preferred
> > > default because it is quite a bit faster and provides more complete
> > > results.
> >
> > I was scratchig my head over that one, I'm glad I'm not the
> > only one.
>
> Don't worry, it's hard not to scratch your head when somebody (ie, me)
> is on large amounts crack. Want some? It makes everything so much
> clearer :)
>
> Dan
We are all bringing different expertise and viewpoint to the
party, which are often complementary. Don't underestimate what you
have achieved, you have contributed a lot in term of normalising the
API between drivers and user-space. All this wireless stuff is quite
tricky.
Jean
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