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 V4 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:44:43 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E11F43.4010006@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356699373.9922.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On Friday 28 December 2012 06:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:31 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:51 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>>
>>> V4:
>>> - Change it accordingly so that at any time the driver can
>>> support either white or black list not both.
>>
>> I was under the impression you needed both. Unless I get confirmation
>> from Kalle and/or Jouni I'll not apply this lest it needs to be changed
>> in yet again incompatible ways later ...
>
> Actually I just talked to Jouni again and it seems that the best way to
> think of the combined black/whitelist is to treat it as a whitelist +
> "notification avoidance optimisation list". The key here being
> optimisation, we don't really have to worry about it in terms of feature
> advertising etc. since it can be ignored/managed by the driver.
Sure. Is the assumption here is the stations in optimisation list \
either be denied or allowed which is specific to driver?.
Vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-31 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-28 10:21 [PATCH V4 1/2] cfg80211: Move the definition of struct mac_address up Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-28 10:21 ` [PATCH V4 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-12-28 11:31 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-28 12:56 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-31 5:14 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
2013-01-02 12:56 ` Johannes Berg
2013-01-03 5:47 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2013-01-03 9:54 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-28 13:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-31 5:19 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2013-01-02 12:57 ` Johannes Berg
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