Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.63.242]:37568 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729990AbeHNOQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:16:08 -0400 Message-ID: <1534246103.3547.23.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20180814_132925_837210_4D71DBD3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow station search on AP/VLANs From: Johannes Berg To: Manikanta Pubbisetty Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:28:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1532931620-3161-1-git-send-email-mpubbise@codeaurora.org> References: <1532931620-3161-1-git-send-email-mpubbise@codeaurora.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 11:50 +0530, Manikanta Pubbisetty wrote: > When mac80211 receives a packet, we interate over the list of > active interfaces to find the station(which transmitted the packet). > Currently, station search is not allowed on AP/VLAN interface; since > stations can also get mapped to AP/VLAN interfaces, they are worth > considering for station search. I don't see how this makes sense. We use sta_info_get_bss() later, so any AP/AP_VLAN would be OK, so we don't need to try it twice for AP_VLAN? johannes