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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: only send control port frames over nl80211
 control port
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Cc:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:27:45 +0100
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On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 13:19 +0100, Markus Theil wrote:
> As Jouni recently pointed out, the nl80211 control should only transmit
> and receive EAPOL frames. This patch removes forwarding of
> preauthentication frames over the control port. They are handled as
> ordinary data frames again.

Yeah, we need to do something like this, but this will break iwd as it
relies on this RX path when the feature flag is set.

johannes