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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: allow the plink state blocking for user
 managed mesh
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:21:26 +0200
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On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 17:53 +0800, Yeoh Chun-Yeow wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 13:15 +0800, Chun-Yeow Yeoh wrote:
> >> User managed peering has no way to block the plink state
> >> for mesh peering setup by wpa_supp or authsae. Try to do
> >> allow this in kernel space, so that we can use iw utility
> >> to do that.
> >
> > I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
> >
> 
> wpa_supplicant and authsae allows us to do mesh peering in user space,
> but the plink state is still managed in kernel space.
> 
> But AFAIK, there is no implementation by wpa_supplicant or authsae to
> block the plink state.
> 
> By applying this patch, we can use the "iw mesh0 station set
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx plink_action block" to block the peer mesh STA. This
> is useful for experimenting purposes.

Can you please respin with a bit more detail in the commit log?

Thanks.

johannes