On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 18:24 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote: > VHT uses peer AID in the PARTIAL_AID field in TDLS frames. The current > design for TDLS is to first add a dummy STA entry before completing TDLS > Setup and then update information on this STA entry based on what was > received from the peer during the setup exchange. > > In theory, this could use NL80211_ATTR_STA_AID to set the peer AID just > like this is used in AP mode to set the AID of an association station. > However, existing cfg80211 validation rules prevent this attribute from > being used with set_station operation. To avoid interoperability issues > between different kernel and user space version combinations, introduce > a new nl80211 attribute for the purpose of setting TDLS peer AID. This > attribute can be used in both the new_station and set_station > operations. It is not supposed to be allowed to change the AID value > during the lifetime of the STA entry, but that validation is left for > drivers to do in the change_station callback. Hmm. I guess I accidentally applied the first version, I've now applied the differences. 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
