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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/3] cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:31:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <517638DA.1070505@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366638588.8637.15.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>

On 04/22/2013 03:49 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 15:49 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
>> successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
>> API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
>> is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
>> NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.
>>
>> There can be only on critical protocol session started per
>> registered cfg80211 device.
>>
>> The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
>> .crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
>> that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
>> link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
>> to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
>> alter coexistence schemes.
>
> Applied.

Thanks,

I do not see the brcmfmac patches so I guess you dropped those, right. 
They probably did not apply after merging wireless-next. I will rebase 
and submit them to John.

Regards,
Arend



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-18 13:49 [PATCH V7 1/3] cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space Arend van Spriel
2013-04-18 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] brcmfmac: allow scanning to be suppressed in the driver Arend van Spriel
2013-04-18 13:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] brcmfmac: support critical protocol API for DHCP Arend van Spriel
2013-04-22 13:49 ` [PATCH V7 1/3] cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space Johannes Berg
2013-04-23  7:31   ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-04-23  7:48     ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-23 18:30 ` Dan Williams
2013-05-24 16:43   ` Arend van Spriel

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