From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V2 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:11:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346926291.5469.6.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50487650.3050303@qca.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 15:39 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > So about the race condition ... shouldn't the initial MAC list be given
> > in the start_ap() call, so that the AP can start up with a proper ACL
> > already in place, rather than starting up& then modifying later?
>
> Ok. So the ap will start with the initial mac list and the list
> can also be changed dynamically?. I'm fine with this.
Just throwing it out for consideration, it would seem safer to me I
guess. Not that MAC ACLs are really a safety feature anyway, but ...
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 5:48 [RFC V2 1/2] cfg80211: Move the definition of struct mac_address up Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-09-05 5:48 ` [RFC V2 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-09-05 13:42 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-06 10:09 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-09-06 10:11 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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