On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 14:00 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > Agreed.. There has been number of small changes to enable yet another > combinations of driver capabilities to avoid accidentally hitting the > monitor-based old design. > > Getting rid of this code would also remove quite a bit of code: > src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c | 127 ++------- > src/drivers/driver_nl80211.h | 11 - > src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c | 12 +- > src/drivers/driver_nl80211_monitor.c | 491 ----------------------- > ------------ > src/drivers/drivers.mak | 1 - > 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 624 deletions(-) Yeah, I figured. > > That said, it is still possible that someone is using this interface, > so I'm not completely sure when it would be fine to remove this from > hostapd/wpa_supplicant.. wpa_supplicant side might be safer thing to > drop since P2P/AP mode support was likely added at around the same > time as monitor interface design was replaced. For hostapd, it might > be safer to make the support build configurable and disable that > configuration parameter for at least one hostapd release by default > to see if anyone notices.. Yeah, I guess that could be done. At some point, new features added to hostapd will become irrelevant too though - nobody will have e.g. VHT on such an old mac80211. So there's only limited value in using newer hostapd binaries even, except perhaps for security fixes ... johannes _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
