From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
<linville@tuxdriver.com>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:26:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C96E26.6040502@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20681.27637.559013.79620@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:17 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>> Here the white and black list are real white and black list.
>> The mac address listed under white list are allowed to connect
>> while the ones available on black are blocked unconditionally
>> from connection. If a station's mac is part of neither of the lists,
>> that needs to be notified which is missing now. It is not very clear
>> to me about how the notification needs to be done, is it through
>> NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON in NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED or
>> there needs to be new command/attr?.
>
> What if an address is part of both the lists ? :)
This does not seem like a valid configuration. I think it
is up to the fw to decide, probably give a notification to the
user when a connection request is received from that station?.
Vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-07 11:46 [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Move the definition of struct mac_address up Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-07 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-11 19:57 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-12 5:16 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-12 11:26 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-12 11:27 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 4:56 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-13 4:52 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-13 5:47 ` Sujith Manoharan
2012-12-13 5:56 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
2012-12-12 10:14 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-12-12 11:07 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
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