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Re: [PATCH v5] cfg80211: NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER support for CMD_CONNECT

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On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 16:33 -0500, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:
> Disconnect or deauthenticate when the owning socket is closed if this
> flag is supplied to CMD_CONNECT or CMD_ASSOCIATE.  This may be used
> to ensure userspace daemon doesn't leave an unmanaged connection
> behind.
> 
> In some situations it would be possible to account for that, to some
> degree, in the deamon restart code or in the up/down scripts without
> the use of this attribute.  But there will be systems where the
> daemon
> can go away for varying periods without a warning due to local
> resource
> management.
> 

Applied. Turns out there's no conflict with the other change after all,
since the context here doesn't include the pieces I changed (and this
time the "else if" is correct, since disconnecting explicitly is
pointless when the interface is about to be destroyed)

johannes



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