From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: Add TX/RX commands for Action frames
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:53:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263394392.5515.272.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100113113000.GA20835@jm.kir.nu>
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On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:30 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Assuming the later change in mac80211 is to start rejecting Action
> frames for which there is no known internal handler or register user
> space handler, the applications using this without the new
> registration mechanism would indeed need to be updated.
But we definitely want that, and it's trivial, so why not actually start
rejecting unknown frames?
<snip extensibility discussion>
So which ones do we need now? Could we start with code to reject unkonwn
ones, registering what we currently need (since there's a reason you
wrote this patch), and then extend as it becomes necessary, for instance
for vendor frames etc?
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-13 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 10:11 [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: Add TX/RX commands for Action frames Jouni Malinen
2010-01-13 10:19 ` Johannes Berg
2010-01-13 11:30 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-01-13 14:53 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-01-16 21:06 ` Johannes Berg
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