Re: nl80211 feature flags

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 12/17/14 21:21, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 21:06 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>
>> I intended to add a feature flag, but it seems filled up completely on
>> mac80211-next tree. Did you already have an idea how to extend this?
>
> Yeah, I noticed that before, but I didn't have a plan yet.
>
> I think since the features are documented as a u32 attribute we can't
> extend them very well. I think we probably have to add another attribute
> - but maybe we should define the new one as a u8 array or so to begin
> with (like e.g. the extended capabilities information element)

Agreed. I was thinking in that direction as well. I will include it in 
the series we are preparing for 4-way handshake offload.

Gr. AvS

> johannes
>