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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:26:54 +0530
From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac
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On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:17 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>> Here the white and black list are real white and black list.
>> The mac address listed under white list are allowed to connect
>> while the ones available on black are blocked unconditionally
>> from connection. If a station's mac is part of neither of the lists,
>> that needs to be notified which is missing now. It is not very clear
>> to me about how the notification needs to be done, is it through
>> NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON in NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED or
>> there needs to be new command/attr?.
>
> What if an address is part of both the lists ? :)

This does not seem like a valid configuration. I think it
is up to the fw to decide, probably give a notification to the
user when a connection request is received from that station?.

Vasanth