Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:43484 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898Ab1HYHfu (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:35:50 -0400 Received: by gya6 with SMTP id 6so1521665gya.19 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:35:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110810205556.GA3821@jouni.qca.qualcomm.com> References: <20110810205556.GA3821@jouni.qca.qualcomm.com> From: Arik Nemtsov Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:35 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20110825_093553_741216_990A5CEC) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/cfg80211: Add extra IE configuration to AP mode setup To: Jouni Malinen Cc: "John W. Linville" , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 23:55, Jouni Malinen wrote: > The NL80211_CMD_NEW_BEACON command is, in practice, requesting AP mode > operations to be started. Add new attributes to provide extra IEs > (e.g., WPS IE, P2P IE) for drivers that build Beacon, Probe Response, > and (Re)Association Response frames internally (likely in firmware). > > Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen I noticed hostap.git doesn't make use of the new attributes. Are patches in the works for the usermode parts? The same applies to NL80211_ATTR_HIDDEN_SSID which was introduced earlier in this series. Thanks, Arik