From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@opentechinstitute.org>
Cc: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add support for userspace to handle auth frames on adhoc ifaces
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:51:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339699864.9786.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FDA2CED.8090303@opentechinstitute.org>
> >>> Oops, sorry, yes. I forgot all about that code!
> >>>
> >>> I suppose we'd have to check whether userspace is handling
> >>> authentication?
> >>
> >> Could use the control_port flag to check for that condition?
> >
> > Not really, that's not necessarily the same thing -- I think we might
> > want to also allow to offload open auth to userspace.
> >
> > I think it wouldn't be difficult to notify mac80211 about frame
> > registrations so it can keep track for this purpose?
> >
> > johannes
>
> I am happy to code something like this up. I've already taken a look at
> it and don't think it will be too big of a problem. I am going to be AFK
> until Monday so I won't get to it until then. I hope that's not a problem.
No problem, take your time! I'm not in any hurry with this feature :-)
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-14 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-13 15:46 [PATCH] mac80211: add support for userspace to handle auth frames on adhoc ifaces Will Hawkins
2012-06-14 7:13 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-14 16:45 ` Will Hawkins
2012-06-14 8:00 ` Nicolas Cavallari
2012-06-14 11:24 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-14 12:46 ` Nicolas Cavallari
2012-06-14 16:48 ` Will Hawkins
2012-06-14 16:53 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-14 16:55 ` Will Hawkins
2012-06-14 17:08 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-14 18:26 ` Will Hawkins
2012-06-14 18:51 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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