On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:17 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote: > > Basically we would have two modes: > > * whitelist > > * blacklist > > > > (each might or might not be supported by the driver) > > > > When a station is on the blacklist it's ignored. When it's on the > > whitelist it's allowed. When it's on neither, but a list is configured, > > an event might be sent. When there's a black-& whitelist, the blacklist > > is this an optimisation to suppress the event, so we don't need a third > > mode "black- and whitelist supported". > > Thanks!, I was really confused with this optimization part. > If I get it correctly, there needs to be a mechanism for > driver to advertise its dual list capability to user space. No, because that's subsumed by just the whitelist -- the blacklist in addition to the whitelist is just an optimisation which we can always pass to the driver but it may ignore. 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
