Subject: Re: [RFC] nl80211: Authentication and association events
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:48:46 -0800
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On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:37 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:55:27PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 21:25 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > > +enum nl80211_auth_type {
> > > +	NL80211_AUTHTYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
> >=20
> > This seems a little odd, is that really useful? And if it is, what do w=
e
> > do? Try all?
>=20
> This is not supposed to be used and was there only to follow the
> do-not-use-zero-in-nl80211 policy.. However, it looks like the example I
> used (nl80211_iftype) actually uses the unspecified value or well at
> least it is documented as something that could potentially be used. I
> can just remove this and the _after_last, _max from here since they are
> not really supposed to be used anywhere..

Oh, ok, well you only need to reserve 0 for attribute numbers, not for
attribute values.

> > Should we have some more code in cfg80211 to keep track of the BSSes
> > we're authenticated/the one we're associated to, and have some commands
> > to query those from userspace?
>=20
> It would probably be useful to add this eventually. Whatever is
> requesting the association has most of the information, but it would be
> could to allow other applications have access to it and also remove the
> need to store that in the control application.

I guess we'll kinda need that to have iwconfig print out something useful.

johannes

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