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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:44:43 +0530
From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement
 mac address based ACL
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On Friday 28 December 2012 06:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Sure. Is the assumption here is the stations in optimisation list \
either be denied or allowed which is specific to driver?.

Vasanth