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From: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nl80211: use src and dst addr attribute for control port tx/rx
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:45:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e3d7e47-4ca0-9022-98d6-f62b70761b1d@tu-ilmenau.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0978ab700c8b0551c0853763b57a79a1214f77b.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On 1/15/20 12:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> First, I think you should squash these two patches, there's no point in
> adding unused attributes :-)
Ok.
>> The respective arguments are optional on tx and included on rx.
>> Therefore unaware existing software is not affected.
> This may be true, but doesn't *new* hostapd have to know that this is
> supported, or otherwise fall back to sending the frames as data frames?
>
> Seems to me a (driver) capability for this is needed.
Sounds good and would make a clean detection in hostapd possible.
I'll update my patch.

Markus
> johannes
>

      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-10 14:54 [PATCH 1/2] nl80211: add src and dst mac attributes Markus Theil
2020-01-10 14:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] nl80211: use src and dst addr attribute for control port tx/rx Markus Theil
2020-01-15 11:30   ` Johannes Berg
2020-01-15 11:45     ` Markus Theil [this message]

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