From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: privacy_invoked in AP interfaces?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:54:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214045404.GC5698@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197453187.6558.88.camel@johannes.berg>
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I was just testing hostapd and it told me:
> Could not set PrivacyInvoked for interface wlan0
>
> This is because we only allow setting that for STA interfaces, but what
> should the setting do for AP interfaces? I don't see any point in it, is
> there?
The only use for it in the AP mode is to support drivers (or well, more
likely firmware designs) that insist on generating the Beacon (and Probe
Response) frames themselves. I would be fine with net/mac80211 not
supporting such designs, but it would probably be better to continue to
support this in hostapd (and make it possible to do this with
cfg/nl80211, too).
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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2007-12-12 9:53 privacy_invoked in AP interfaces? Johannes Berg
2007-12-14 4:54 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-12-14 12:14 ` Johannes Berg
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