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From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>,
	Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] qtnfmac: support MAC address based access control
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:29:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171219102932.xv7bxasvlvguy7jb@bars> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1513676321.26145.1.camel@sipsolutions.net>

Hello Johannes,

> > Meanwhile now it is not yet clear to me what should be done for driver which
> > supports MAC-based ACL, but not full-fledged AP SME.
> 
> Are you sure that such a device can even exist? It'd have to drop the
> auth frames, so they can't be handled by the host? Is there much point
> in that?

I guess it should be possible to do some kind of source address filtering
in hardware. But it looks like your question is whether it makes sense
or not. Probably not, I have no idea.

By the way, what do you think about making MAC-based ACL capability the
first bit in enum nl80211_ap_sme_features ?

Regards,
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-19 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-13 10:28 [PATCH 0/10] qtnfmac: regular portion of features and fixes Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 01/10] qtnfmac: check that MAC exists in regulatory notifier Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 02/10] qtnfmac: pass complete channel data between driver and firmware Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-04 14:46   ` Kalle Valo
2017-12-05 16:24     ` Sergey Matyukevich
2018-01-12 11:23       ` Kalle Valo
2018-01-15  9:56         ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 03/10] qtnfmac: add support for radar detection and CAC Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-04 14:49   ` Kalle Valo
2017-12-04 14:52     ` Kalle Valo
2017-12-05 16:27       ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 04/10] qtnfmac: change default interface mode from AP to STA Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 05/10] qtnfmac: check for passed channel being NULL in MGMT_TX command Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 06/10] qtnfmac: fix rssi data passed to wireless core Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 07/10] qtnfmac: fill wiphy's extended capabilities Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 08/10] qtnfmac: modify GET_STA_STATS cmd format for back/forward compatibility Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 09/10] qtnfmac: keeping track of "generation" for STA info Sergey Matyukevich
2017-11-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 10/10] qtnfmac: support MAC address based access control Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-04 15:01   ` Kalle Valo
2017-12-05 16:00     ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-18 12:43       ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-18 14:01       ` Kalle Valo
2017-12-18 16:18         ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-19  9:38           ` Johannes Berg
2017-12-19 10:29             ` Sergey Matyukevich [this message]
2017-12-19 10:35               ` Johannes Berg
2017-12-19 10:42                 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-19 10:59                   ` Johannes Berg
2017-12-19 11:19                     ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-12-19 12:37                       ` Arend van Spriel
2017-12-19 16:58                         ` Johannes Berg
2017-12-19 22:13                           ` Arend Van Spriel

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