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From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cfg80211: support multicast RX registration
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:47:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200420204746.GA15385@w1.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200417124013.c46238801048.Ib041d437ce0bff28a0c6d5dc915f68f1d8591002@changeid>

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:40:15PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> For DPP, there's a need to receive multicast action frames,
> but many drivers need a special filter configuration for this.
> 
> Support announcing from userspace in the management registration
> that multicast RX is required, with an extended feature flag if
> the driver handles this.

Thanks, this looks good to me. I did some testing with mac80211 and
wpa_supplicant changes to confirm that the DPP listen case can be passed
through this to the driver as needed.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-20 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-17 10:40 [RFC PATCH] cfg80211: support multicast RX registration Johannes Berg
2020-04-19 21:21 ` [RFC PATCH] cfg80211: support multicast RX registrationy Sergey Matyukevich
2020-04-20 20:47 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]

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