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Re: [patch 2/5] Add basic support for IEEE 802.11n discovery and association

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On Wednesday 11 April 2007 16:04, mabbas wrote:
> I am not familiar with userspace mlme what needed to be done?
mac80211 has a userspace mlme mode which defers all things dealing with 
management frames to userspace (wpa_supplicant). It basically disables all 
the code in ieee80211_sta.c and routes management frames to a special 
interface where wpa_supplicant (or hostap) handles things. This is preferred 
and the ieee80211_sta.c code is there for backwards compatibility.

No major features should be added to the in-kernel MLME (ieee80211_sta.c) but 
even more importantly, your patch series does not provide the appropriate 
hooks for a userspace MLME to support a driver using this 802.11n API.

-Michael Wu

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