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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: remove and renumber NL80211_FEATURE_FULL_AP_CLIENT_STATE

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On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 12:13 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Adding the flag to mac80211 already without testing was
> clearly a mistake, one that we now pay for by having to
> reserve bit 13 forever. The problem is cfg80211 doesn't
> allow capability/rate changes for station entries that
> were added unassociated, so the station entries cannot
> be set up properly when marked associated.
> 
> Change the NL80211_FEATURE_FULL_AP_CLIENT_STATE number
> to make it clear to userspace implementations that all
> current kernels don't actually support it, even though
> the previous bit is set, and of course also remove the
> flag from mac80211 until we test and fix the issues.

Applied.

johannes

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