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Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] nl80211: Allow SAE Authentication for NL80211_CMD_CONNECT

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On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 18:33 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> From: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This commit allows SAE Authentication for NL80211_CMD_CONNECT
> interface, provided this is supported by the host driver.

Now this is interesting - there could potentially be a case where you
request SAE, but don't set NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPP[ORT], and
then SAE *isn't* supported, right?

What happens then? Do we expect the driver to reject it? Better at
least document the expected behaviour...

johannes



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