On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:10:47PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > One of supported code paths already allows this scenario. It is used if > driver doesn't report NL80211_ATTR_DEVICE_AP_SME and doesn't support > monitor interface. In such situation: > 1) We don't quit if subscribing for WLAN_FC_STYPE_PROBE_REQ fails > 2) We don't try subscribing for WLAN_FC_STYPE_ACTION > 3) We fallback to AP SME mode after failing to create monitor interface > 4) We don't quit if subscribing for WLAN_FC_STYPE_PROBE_REQ fails > Above scenario is used e.g. with brcmfmac. As you can see - thanks to > events provided by cfg80211 - it's not really required to receive probe > or action frames > > However current code doesn't allow using hostapd with drivers that: > 1) Report NL80211_ATTR_DEVICE_AP_SME > 2) Don't support subscribing for PROBE_REQ and/or ACTION frames > In case of using such a driver hostapd will cancel setup after failing > to subscribe for WLAN_FC_STYPE_ACTION. I noticed it after setting flag > WIPHY_FLAG_HAVE_AP_SME in brcmfmac driver for my experiments. > > This patch allows working with such drivers with just a small warning > printed as debug message. Thanks, applied. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
