On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 17:16 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote: > This patch enables drivers to implement mac address based > access control in AP/P2P GO mode. There is a new flag in > nl80211_ap_sme_features (NL80211_AP_SME_FEATURE_MAC_ACL) > for drivers to advertise this capability. There are two acl > policies, white and black list under which an acl list can > be configured in the driver. Driver has to advertise the > maximum number of mac address entries in acl list through > max_acl_mac_addrs of wiphy. > > Driver can enable its ACL either with the initial list passed > through NL80211_CMD_START_AP or a list passed through > NL80211_CMD_SET_MAC_ACL. ACL information passed in these > commands is an array of acl configuration containing acl > policy and list of mac address. With the acl policy as > NL80211_ACL_POLICY_ACCEPT, driver will accept Auth request > from any client matching any one of the mac addresses in the acl list. > When acl policy is NL80211_ACL_POLICY_DENY, driver will reject any > Auth request from the clients having their mac address listed in the > acl list. Driver must make sure to clear it's acl list when doing > stop ap. It seems easy to imagine a device that supports only a blacklist or whitelist, not both combined? What's the point of that anyway? > + NL80211_AP_SME_FEATURE_MAC_ACL = 1 << 0, This doesn't seem to be needed since you have the max ACL number, and should leave out the attribute if it's 0 so its presence can be the feature test. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
