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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] nl80211: Add probe response offload attribute
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:39:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319305186.3956.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA038468Y7T4BSAycqmNc0q+Ph1wSh07B57tV--O00kvDEp-wg@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20111022_192728_088869_C7443530)

On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 19:26 +0200, Guy Eilam wrote:

> >> > +enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr {
> >> > +   NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_WPS,
> >> > +   NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_WPS2,
> >> > +   NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_P2P,
> >> > +};
> >>
> >> I think doing = 1<<N here would be nicer to use in drivers & userspace.
> >
> > Hm, also: should we call this WPS or WSC, and do we need to distinguish
> > WPS and WPS2? My AP mode patch called it WSC in a different context but
> > I can change, we just should be consistent.
> >
> >> > + * @get_probe_resp_offload: Get probe response offload support from driver.
> >>
> >> and this seems unnecessary -- why not just put a u32 value into struct
> >> wiphy?
> >
> > Oh, and probably a regular WIPHY flag that indicates whether the
> > attribute should be added at all so that it can also be 0 but present
> > (presence with 0 value indicates something other than not present).
> 
> When this is not supported a -EOPNOTSUPP should be returned.
> A 0 return means that it is supported.

Yeah but if you add a wiphy flag and the bits into struct wiphy, then
you can save the function pointer which seems nicer?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-22 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22 13:11 [PATCH 1/4] nl80211: Add probe response offload attribute Guy Eilam
2011-10-22 13:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: Get the probe response offloading support from the driver Guy Eilam
2011-10-22 13:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] nl80211: Pass probe response data to drivers Guy Eilam
2011-10-22 13:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] mac80211: Save probe response data for BSS Guy Eilam
2011-10-22 13:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] nl80211: Add probe response offload attribute Johannes Berg
2011-10-22 13:36   ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-22 17:26     ` Guy Eilam
2011-10-22 17:39       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-10-22 17:42         ` Guy Eilam
2011-10-22 17:44           ` Johannes Berg

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