[patch] Set WPS/WSC IE for ProbeRequests via WEXT driver wrapper

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 20:42 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> > +       wpa_driver_wext_set_gen_ie(priv, params->extra_ies,
> > +                                        params->extra_ies_len);
> >         if (ssid && ssid_len) {
> >                 os_memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
> >                 req.essid_len = ssid_len;
[...]
> How commonly is this ioctl used to change Probe Request behavior? Do all
> or even most drivers do that? The exact behavior is not really
> documented very well and the only existing use case in wpa_supplicant
> seems to be in configuring IEs to (Re)Association Request frames.

Certainly not in cfg80211.

johannes