From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: <linville@tuxdriver.com>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Add an attribute to set inactivity timeout in AP mode
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:57:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120301142727.GA2041@vasanth-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330611665.3623.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:21:05PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 18:22 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > This patch adds an attribute, NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT,
> > to set the inactivity timeout which can be used to remove the
> > station in AP mode. This can be passed in NL80211_CMD_START_AP
> > and used by the drivers which have AP MLME in firmware but
> > don't support get_station() properly.
>
> Doesn't hostapd need to know whether this is done or not? At least if it
> knew it could avoid timers etc. -- seems you should add a flag that
> indicates support for this? .And maybe refuse the setting if the flag
> isn't set.
Makes sense, i'll add a flag. thanks!
Vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-01 12:52 [PATCH] cfg80211: Add an attribute to set inactivity timeout in AP mode Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-03-01 14:21 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-01 14:27 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
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2012-03-01 15:21 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-03-02 9:01 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-02 10:18 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
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