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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:49:46 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        wireless@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 275424] IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_MAX_SSID differs from IEEE80211_SCAN_MAX_SSID
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Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> ---
If you look at

net80211::ieee80211_scanreq():

you'll find the following comment:

  /* NB: silently reduce ssid count to what is supported */

It's hard to say (given the huge updates pushed back then) why the IOC vers=
ion
was introduced but it seems it was done on purpose.

The hostap history says it was done for FreeBSD 8 support:
88487b0e0b524aae7603c17b7db7985ae9a810c9


If you look further at the code, you'll find that despite being capped (fur=
ther
down the stack, e.g. down to ieee80211_scan_copy_ssid()) the number of SSID=
s is
passed down.

If you look further in scan_curchan()/ieee80211_swscan_probe_curchan() you =
can
see that it would send a probe request per SSID and that matches the commen=
t in
ieee80211_scan.h.  But that code was there before already.  Seems to have c=
ome
in with 68e8e04e93c1ec3d37022223b69073f50d3d4981.

I wonder if this is missing follow-up work to finish it given modern hardwa=
re
can probe 16/20/.. SSIDs?

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