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Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/3] nl80211: allow configuration of BSS selection
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:20:46 +0100
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On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 10:15 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 
> I looked into the suggested mac80211 "demo", but it seems this bss 
> selection could be handled in net/wireless/sme.c for drivers support 
> .assoc() and friends instead of .connect(). However, I recall Jouni 
> suggesting to have NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SELECT in NL80211_CMD_ASSOC as
> well. 
> So I guess wpa_s uses that command directly?
> 

wpa_s uses assoc(), yeah. This would only be relevant if you actually
used "iw wlan0 connect", but still might be worthwhile as an example?
Dunno.

johannes