2024-04-19 21:42:34

by Brian Norris

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Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 04:00:17AM +0000, David Lin wrote:
> Can you let me know what does "external_auth" mean?

Look around for NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH. It's in nl80211.h with plenty
of comments. (And also cfg80211_ops::cfg80211_ops,
cfg80211_external_auth_request, ...)

I've never looked at this interface before, personally. It seems to rely
on cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx support too; that seems to exist in mwifiex,
although I have no clue the quality of support there.

Brian