2007-06-20 11:17:47

by Johannes Berg

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Subject: ieee80211_set_aid_for_sta?

Hi,

As with the radar stuff, I don't see any users of
ieee80211_set_aid_for_sta. It seems to be useful when firmware
establishes sta MAC->AID mapping, but hostapd doesn't handle that
currently. Remove until we find new hardware requiring it?

johannes


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2007-06-20 13:41:41

by Jouni Malinen

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Subject: Re: ieee80211_set_aid_for_sta?

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:39:30AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> As with the radar stuff, I don't see any users of
> ieee80211_set_aid_for_sta. It seems to be useful when firmware
> establishes sta MAC->AID mapping, but hostapd doesn't handle that
> currently. Remove until we find new hardware requiring it?

hostapd has code for using it, but it is commented out in the open
source version. I don't remember why that was done, but I would assume
it would have required more changes that I did want to do at the point
when merging this from Devicescape version.

Anyway, this was needed with a PrismGT card where the firmware was
indeed taking care of AID selection and then reporting the selected AID
to hostapd. I don't have anything against removing it for now.

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