Re: [PATCH V7 1/3] cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 04/22/2013 03:49 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 15:49 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
>> successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
>> API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
>> is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
>> NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.
>>
>> There can be only on critical protocol session started per
>> registered cfg80211 device.
>>
>> The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
>> .crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
>> that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
>> link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
>> to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
>> alter coexistence schemes.
>
> Applied.

Thanks,

I do not see the brcmfmac patches so I guess you dropped those, right. 
They probably did not apply after merging wireless-next. I will rebase 
and submit them to John.

Regards,
Arend