From: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
To: Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com>
Cc: "Maximilian Luz" <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
"Jonas Dreßler" <verdre@v0yd.nl>,
"Ganapathi Bhat" <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
"Amitkumar Karwar" <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
"Xinming Hu" <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Subject: Re: mwifiex: mwifiex_cfg80211_change_station and AP mode
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:57:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210717135738.isur3l2v4yyo54ad@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701124837.3jss6u324f7kqeou@pali>
[+cc: Maximilian, Jonas and Sharvari]
Just to note that hostapd does not work in EAP mode (which is used e.g.
in WPA2-Enterprise) when kernel driver does not implement
NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION with NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN support.
So without it is mwifiex basically unusable for EAP mode.
On Wednesday 01 July 2020 14:48:37 Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm looking at mwifiex_cfg80211_change_station() function which
> basically implements NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION nl80211 API.
>
> Currently this mwifiex implementation does not support AP mode, only
> client STA mode.
>
> The most common usage of NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION in AP mode is via
> NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN to put clients into separate VLANs.
>
> Is there any possibility how to implement NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION with
> NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN in mwifiex (in mwifiex_cfg80211_change_station)?
> It looks like it is needed some mwifiex firmware command which would do
> it (put client into vlan).
>
> Do you have any information / documentation for this feature?
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2020-07-01 12:48 mwifiex: mwifiex_cfg80211_change_station and AP mode Pali Rohár
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