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Re: [PATCH 2/2] nl80211/cfg80211: PMF Requirement communicated to driver with AP SME

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> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 12:31 -0700, Chet Lanctot wrote:
>> Needed for drivers that have AP SME integrated.  Whether PMF (Protected
>> Management Frames, 802.11w) should be used for station connections
>> is communicated from upper layer software through nl80211/cfg80211.
>
> This is a bit unclear, what's expected of the driver?
>

Johannes,

Thank you for your feedback.

I will expand the commit text to make it clearer that is expected of the
driver.

>
>> +	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_USE_MFP]) {
>> +		params.mfp = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_USE_MFP]);
>> +		if (params.mfp != NL80211_MFP_REQUIRED &&
>> +		    params.mfp != NL80211_MFP_OPTIONAL &&
>> +		    params.mfp != NL80211_MFP_NO)
>> +			return -EINVAL;
>> +	} else
>> +		params.mfp = NL80211_MFP_NO;
>> +
>
> checkpatch.
>
> johannes
>
>


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