From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <periyasa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Karthikeyan Periyasamy <periyasa@codeaurora.org>,
johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] ath10k: Add QCA vendor command/attr support to filterneighbor BSS frames
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 06:00:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181005060031.CA294607A2@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1530791512-6915-3-git-send-email-periyasa@codeaurora.org>
Karthikeyan Periyasamy <periyasa@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Add operations to allow an AP to capture frames from stations that
> are active on the operating channel, but not associated to the current AP.
> Operations include add/delete the filter and get the statistics
> information of the unassociated stations.
>
> User can able to add/delete two type of filters,
> 1. BSSID
> 2. STA MAC address
>
> BSSID filter achieved by HW through vdev_set_neighbor_rx_param WMI command.
> Local device able to capture all frames of the specified BSS using the above
> WMI command. STA filter achieved by SW through RX addr2 matching with
> unassociated station rhash table list keyed by MAC address. rhash table used
> for efficient search. rhash table can grow/shrink by the add/delete STA
> filter request.
>
> Hardware tested: QCA9984, QCA4019 and QCA9888
> Firmware tested: 10.4-3.6-xxxxx
>
> NOTE: Tested with debug firmware
>
> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <periyasa@codeaurora.org>
So I'm not sure what to do with this. A bpf type of filtering system in
mac80211 would be nice but then again we cannot benefit from HW offloading.
Johannes, what do you think?
Here are the full patches:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10508821/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10508823/
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10508823/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-05 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-05 11:51 [RFC 0/2] ath10k: Add QCA vendor command/attr support to filter neighbor BSS frames Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2018-07-05 11:51 ` [RFC 1/2] ath10k: add wmi interface for vdev_set_neighbor_rx_param Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2018-07-05 11:51 ` [RFC 2/2] ath10k: Add QCA vendor command/attr support to filter neighbor BSS frames Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2018-10-05 6:00 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
[not found] ` <20181005060031.BA1EB60BF4@smtp.codeaurora.org>
2018-10-18 8:29 ` [RFC 2/2] ath10k: Add QCA vendor command/attr support to filterneighbor " Johannes Berg
2018-11-20 2:40 ` Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2019-01-25 20:49 ` Johannes Berg
2019-01-28 4:49 ` Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2019-02-15 12:37 ` Johannes Berg
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