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Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] cfg80211/nl80211: Enable drivers to implement mac address based ACL

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On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:31 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:51 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> 
> > V4:
> > 	- Change it accordingly so that at any time the driver can
> > 	  support either white or black list not both.
> 
> I was under the impression you needed both. Unless I get confirmation
> from Kalle and/or Jouni I'll not apply this lest it needs to be changed
> in yet again incompatible ways later ...

Actually I just talked to Jouni again and it seems that the best way to
think of the combined black/whitelist is to treat it as a whitelist +
"notification avoidance optimisation list". The key here being
optimisation, we don't really have to worry about it in terms of feature
advertising etc. since it can be ignored/managed by the driver.

johannes

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