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received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: quantenna.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com; x-microsoft-antispam-message-info: rxQXzHOLxoqbJqh+c5vtLUaSZSEBzSctyDRzZo5vyxrm0xEqKm2j1zFE/goGY/D4D1x4FecVOkUtvLwrKKhtZJI3F+UKQKV29MKq5iRhOaecomaKL85DK2T7w7h5XPgHcFnBGoAuEy+Vz4IPJ2yvE9WLeqN4pOy/icypIdRQGo2XQmGWw4mB3I3NdNx/ApfMlV2levdsOo61B62kRwHX6VVyTP42fmtlcKQPBZ8brqWIns3PlTKNzDCZxkpH84AELGNi6Sik8QciqI2tpMs4nPE/MpZzCm0AemxPy7mSRL9Jh1fOgyUAVaBG+qqMQB/o spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <14C3CBDD3517304191440BC566BBFCC1@namprd05.prod.outlook.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: quantenna.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: 2d4bb995-0f98-4b74-af01-08d665b4ab13 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: a355dbce-62b4-4789-9446-c1d5582180ff X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 19 Dec 2018 13:22:42.4322 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: BL0PR05MB5235 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Hi, > Add support for getting and free association ID if the station > association ID management handled by the WLAN driver/firmware. >=20 > Add cfg80211 driver ops and nl80211 API and CMD to request > the WLAN driver to assign an AID for a station during association > and release the AID of the station from the WLAN driver/firmware > station database on disassociation from the AP. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Sarada Prasanna Garnayak > --- > include/net/cfg80211.h | 12 +++++++ > include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 11 +++++++ > net/wireless/nl80211.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= ++++++ > net/wireless/rdev-ops.h | 22 +++++++++++++ > net/wireless/trace.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 155 insertions(+) Could you please clarify the use-cases for this feature and its potential users ? Besides, why existing nl80211_set_station can't be used ? It turns out that there exists station AID field among numerous 'struct station_parameters' fields. Regards, Sergey