From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B591C3A59E for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:57:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD50217F9 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:57:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=miegl.cz header.i=@miegl.cz header.b="iaDJtpn2" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729664AbfHUX5m (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:57:42 -0400 Received: from ocelot.miegl.cz ([195.201.216.236]:32938 "EHLO ocelot.miegl.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727255AbfHUX5m (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:57:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=miegl.cz; s=dkim; t=1566431858; bh=rK/Pi7EguZq44uQT0yZvSGUkDVb+LvjOSqIOOcFIEBw=; h=Date:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:To:CC:From; b=iaDJtpn20bGQKet9KP8tUnGIOcGIStgS84tc3zhBzNFO67kNUDmXBHHZjX1eC1HzD OCdbZ3ytWTZK5sPn0c+Kl82gL2GYR9ULFGFuRiCeaxzDdqcvpVfC47FTG4AhwR5T2W p2k53T9rOu8t+Ls7LgGJs0a9p/ObCX/wR/DxfkZmD4EQW11VPHBmmUHyIX6Tz/NGLo PXnqUkHH2/OT3/0m/eM4R/rQMjUYuDeA+XJ5n7F/El1FA2au08l6zem/iCgve+8C3W HHDtBK62aMBUFMNDekHiVsxmv0YmMLqW7ZWlDrTHaW+ZL66GUXRd3SEA2Pul3t7CWg /jHB0wc3F1HWw== Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 01:57:34 +0200 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <8ec8202e-ca07-3594-5873-5b282d553711@newmedia-net.de> References: <20190815152844.k5mmddvbwrohkzr6@pepin-laptop.localdomain> <3a079683-6f57-3b42-f909-90c46e14f14f@newmedia-net.de> <20190816111044.4ntizgmpa3twbzcg@pepin-laptop.localdomain> <20190816113818.ohktykc4fyetzyvq@pepin-laptop.localdomain> <9985fddfb059640f36665efc9c1ef2dc0bdb7662.camel@sipsolutions.net> <8ec8202e-ca07-3594-5873-5b282d553711@newmedia-net.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Implementing Mikrotik IE To: Sebastian Gottschall , Johannes Berg CC: linux-wireless From: Josef Miegl Message-ID: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On August 20, 2019 2:36:21 PM GMT+02:00, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: >i know=2E thats why i never even tried to contribute it upstream=2E but >from=20 >hostapd side it was more complicated than just hacking mac80211 >and from stations a second mod for wpa_supplicant would be needed and=20 >since the dd-wrt webgui just uses nl80211 to show the station table >its more comportable and takes less code just todo it within the driver >i there is special interest in it i could of course try to clean it up=20 >and make a upstream patch out of it I don't think something like Mikrotiks IE belongs to hostapd=2E The cleane= st solution is probably parsing the IE and generating the IE for hostapd wi= th an external tool, that can the dd-wrt GUI then use=2E I've made a simple= C program for this, can share if you want=2E Josef Josef