On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 00:16 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote: > Previously, the status parameter to cfg80211_connect_result() was > documented as using WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE (1) when the real > status code for the failure is not known. This value can be used by > an > AP (and often is) and as such, user space cannot distinguish between > explicitly rejected authentication/association and not being able to > even try to associate or not receiving a response from the AP. > > Add a new inline function, cfg80211_connect_timeout(), to be used > when > the driver knows that the connection attempt failed due to a reason > where connection could not be attempt or no response was received > from > the AP. The internal functions now allow a negative status value (-1) > to > be used as an indication of this special case. This results in the > NL80211_ATTR_TIMED_OUT to be added to the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT event > to > allow user space to determine this case was hit. For backwards > compatibility, NL80211_STATUS_CODE with the value > WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE is still indicated in the event in > such > a case. > Applied, with a fix to the cfg80211_connect_bss() prototype. I also added cfg80211_connect_timeout to the docbook. 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
