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Re: [PATCH][RFC] cfg80211: NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER support for CMD_CONNECT

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On Fri, 2016-12-02 at 21:56 +0100, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:
> Disconnect or deauthenticate when the owning socket is closed if this
> flag has been supplied to CMD_CONNECT, CMD_AUTHENTICATE or
> CMD_ASSOCIATE.

Huh. That I think needs a lot more commit log to justify this code -
why do you think this would be useful? Connection managers dying don't
really mean you need to disconnect immediately, after all, and if they
restart it's pretty simple to detect the existing connection and
perhaps even use it...

johannes



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