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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: VLAN offload support for set_key and
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From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        Gurumoorthi Gnanasambandhan <gguru@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:16:03 +0200
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On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 16:38 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> From: Gurumoorthi Gnanasambandhan <gguru@codeaurora.org>
> 
> This provides an alternative mechanism for AP VLAN support where a
> single netdev is used with VLAN tagged frames instead of separate
> netdevs for each VLAN without tagged frames from the WLAN driver.
> 
> By setting NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_VLAN_OFFLOAD flag the driver indicates
> support for a single netdev with VLAN tagged frames. Separate
> VLAN-specific netdevs are added using vcongig similar to Ethernet.
> NL80211_CMD_NEW_KEY and NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION will optionally specify
> vlan_id using NL80211_ATTR_VLAN_ID.

Without really looking at the specifics, it might be relatively simple
to support this in mac80211?

johannes