Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:53346 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752979Ab2L1Mz4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:55:56 -0500 Message-ID: <1356699373.9922.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20121228_135559_928486_BB771E64) Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL From: Johannes Berg To: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:56:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1356694308.9922.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20121228_123135_896103_E2B28BED) References: <1356690070-26612-1-git-send-email-vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> <1356690070-26612-2-git-send-email-vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> <1356694308.9922.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20121228_123135_896103_E2B28BED) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:31 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:51 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote: > > > V4: > > - Change it accordingly so that at any time the driver can > > support either white or black list not both. > > I was under the impression you needed both. Unless I get confirmation > from Kalle and/or Jouni I'll not apply this lest it needs to be changed > in yet again incompatible ways later ... Actually I just talked to Jouni again and it seems that the best way to think of the combined black/whitelist is to treat it as a whitelist + "notification avoidance optimisation list". The key here being optimisation, we don't really have to worry about it in terms of feature advertising etc. since it can be ignored/managed by the driver. johannes