Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: Allow TDLS peer AID to be configured for VHT

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 18:24 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> VHT uses peer AID in the PARTIAL_AID field in TDLS frames. The current
> design for TDLS is to first add a dummy STA entry before completing TDLS
> Setup and then update information on this STA entry based on what was
> received from the peer during the setup exchange.
> 
> In theory, this could use NL80211_ATTR_STA_AID to set the peer AID just
> like this is used in AP mode to set the AID of an association station.
> However, existing cfg80211 validation rules prevent this attribute from
> being used with set_station operation. To avoid interoperability issues
> between different kernel and user space version combinations, introduce
> a new nl80211 attribute for the purpose of setting TDLS peer AID. This
> attribute can be used in both the new_station and set_station
> operations. It is not supposed to be allowed to change the AID value
> during the lifetime of the STA entry, but that validation is left for
> drivers to do in the change_station callback.

Hmm. I guess I accidentally applied the first version, I've now applied
the differences.

johannes