On 4/19/20 23:28, Jouni Malinen wrote:
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:25:16PM +0200, Markus Theil wrote:
This patch series adds rx control port support over nl80211. Control port
over nl80211 delivers all EAPOL userspace.
Nl80211 control port for AP mode is included, but disabled, as currently no
tx status support for control port frames is included in the kernel.
Wpa_supplicant now uses control port rx over nl80211 for both
EAPOL frames. pre-auth frame rx is disabled.
wpa_supplicant connects noticeably faster in my tests with this patch series
applied.
Thanks, applied with changes along the lines pointed out in the other
comments in this thread. This seems to be working nicely for both TX and
RX and for both STA and AP modes. TX/RX capability can now be selected
independently and automatically with the exception of AP mode TX which I
changed to be disabled by default based on the missing TX status
reporting. That said, I did do this in a manner that allows overriding
with control_port_ap=1 driver param so that all combinations can be
tested in hwsim test cases to avoid breaking something accidentally (and
to also allow that to be used for other purposes, if there are cases
where control port TX is more valuable than the retransmission
optimizations from TX status. Anyway, it would be nice to get TX status
support added for the control port TX so that there would be no
remaining missing capabilities compared to the previously used packet
socket approach.
Thanks! I already have control port TX status patches for the Linux
kernel floating around on my disk. After I had some time to test them
I'll send patches for the missing control port tx status.
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