Re: [RFC 0/4] EAPoL over NL80211

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 12:29 -0600, Denis Kenzior wrote:

> Agreed, requiring both attributes is less than ideal, but I tried to 
> make the initial RFC as minimal as possible.  It also helped that iwd 
> uses SOCKET_OWNER by default.  What can be done is to always set 
> conn_owner_nlportid and introduce another flag that would indicate 
> whether 'connection tear-down on application exit' was requested.
> 
> However, my opinion is that the current SOCKET_OWNER behavior should 
> just be made default, especially for control port over nl80211 
> connections, even if SOCKET_OWNER was not requested.  Once the 
> controlling application dies, there's no hope of salvaging the 
> connection, perform rekeys, etc.

I think we should keep both attributes; it's better to be explicit that
both are needed than to set socket-owner automatically.

> The biggest issue was that each driver defines a set of management 
> frames it can accept via this mechanism.

I'm not sure this is "the biggest issue", but I tend to agree with
keeping them separate.

johannes