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From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mac80211: support NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS"
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:56:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9fba32a-6959-a93a-3119-23915053538c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200224101910.b87da63a3cd6.Ic94bc51a370c4aa7d19fbca9b96d90ab703257dc@changeid>

Hi Johannes,

On 2/24/20 3:19 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> As Jouni points out, there's really no need for this, since the
> RSN pre-authentication frames are normal data frames, not port
> control frames (locally).

Using control port for pre-auth frame TX/RX allows userspace to skip 
setting up a raw socket and associated bpf filters.  This greatly 
simplifies the rx/tx path and uses less resources as well.

So to me this patch set seemed like a good idea...  We (iwd) don't have 
plans to support pre-auth in AP mode in the near future, so this revert 
doesn't really affect us.  I do wonder what is the actual concern to 
warrant a revert?

Regards,
-Denis



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-24 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-24  9:19 [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mac80211: support NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS" Johannes Berg
2020-02-24  9:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "nl80211: add src and dst addr attributes for control port tx/rx" Johannes Berg
2020-02-24 16:56 ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
2020-02-24 18:26   ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mac80211: support NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS" Johannes Berg
2020-02-24 18:26     ` Denis Kenzior
2020-02-24 18:47       ` Johannes Berg
2020-02-24 18:57         ` Denis Kenzior
2020-02-24 19:34           ` Johannes Berg
2020-02-24 19:35             ` Denis Kenzior
2020-02-25 11:00               ` Jouni Malinen
2020-02-25 17:06                 ` Denis Kenzior
2020-03-04 16:24                   ` Markus Theil
2020-03-11  9:31                     ` Johannes Berg
2020-03-11  9:36                       ` Markus Theil

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