On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 18:16 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > During porting the STA management to nl80211 it turned out that it would > > be much nicer in the kernel if we would always set all the flags on a > > STA that the kernel needs to get from hostapd. > > That I might be able to support at least partially by merging together > some operations, but still, I would expect there to be valid scenarios > where it would be useful to be able to just toggle a single flag. Are there really? I can only see three flags in the kernel being set by hostapd, those being "authorized", "wme capable" and "shortslot capable". Some additional flags for the userspace MLME maybe, I need to look into that later. Hence, I don't see any place where we'd ever need to set a single flag, we need to keep track of all those flags anyway. It is certainly possible to have selective flags updating but I don't quite see the point. > This is not going to happen. struct sta_info (the one in hostapd) is > internal for the core implementation and the driver wrappers should > never touch it directly, i.e., pointer to this is not passed on purpose. > If changes to the operation between the driver wrapper and kernel is > desired, it will need to be done in a different way. Ok. I'm still thinking about the best way to do VLAN/STA finding but I may just do that by the AP interface VLANs are tied to. Then the only thing I really need changed is the above flags change. johannes
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