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

[Johannes Berg]

> > Does this problem apply to probe responses as well?  (Do probe
> > responses from hidden SSID APs still exclude the SSID?  I would
> > guess not.)
> 
> There has been a problem in parsing IEs, so if the received probe
> responses include zero length IEs, they also suffer this bug.
> 
> > As long as you can still associate w/ hidden SSID APs, I don't see
> > a big problem.  Even if you can't, no information for those APs is
> > probably better than bad information, no?
> 
> I was anxious that the userland apps or the users may get confused.  Any
> other thing harmful is not found.
> OK, I withdraw this patch.

I think John actually meant that it would be better to have the patch
in. How does a "bad" scan result look like?

johannes
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