Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL

[Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Wednesday 12 December 2012 04:57 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 12:26 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> Yeah but I don't think that's a valid general assumption, and with the
>> feature advertising API that you came up with, the driver can't
>> advertise that it supports both at the same time etc.
>>
>> Also, in fact, I think there needs to be more justification for why you
>> need two lists to start with -- it seems to me that a white- and
>> blacklist doesn't make sense at all, unless it's not really a white- and
>> blacklist but one of
>>   1) a blacklist
>>   2) a whitelist + a "do not notify" list
>
> And actually, without a notify mechanism (which I don't think exists
> yet) this doesn't make sense anyway

We have it for a connection request from a client listed under
black list through NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON in
NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED. But the one which needs to be
there for a connection from client which is part of
neither of the groups is not yet there. As I mentioned
in my previous reply, is this also be sent in
NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED.

Vasanth