[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] PS3: gelic: ignore scan info from zero SSID beacons

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:18 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:15 +0900, Masakazu Mokuno wrote:
> > Some implementations of the hidden SSID APs emit beacons which have the zero
> > length SSID information element instead of SSID padded by null (\0) characters.
> > If the firmware of the PS3 wireless hardware meets these beacons, it abandons parsing
> > IEs. Thus guest OSes get the invalid scan information for the AP.
> > 
> > To work around this, ignore these scan informations from the list.
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good idea. Is there any way to get at decent
> information from those beacons?

Yeah, there are quite a few of these out there.  Ideally the firmware
wouldn't puke on it...

Dan