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Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] support ftm responder configuration/statistics

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On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 18:01 -0700, Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu wrote:
> Currently ftm_responder parameter in hostapd.conf is only used for fine
> timing measurement (FTM) capability advertisement and actual control of
> the functionality is with low-level device/driver. This leads to confusion
> to the user when the capability advertisement is different from actual FTM
> responder functionality.
> 
> For example, FTM responder capability advertisement is set to 'enabled',
> but the functionality is disabled or not supported by the driver.
> 
> The patch set allows userspace to enable FTM responder functionality
> with the addition of new Netlink flag attribute NL80211_ATTR_FTM_RESPONDER
> with configurable lci/civic ocation parameters. Also extended feature flag
> is added for the drivers to advertise the support. Setting the flag to
> enable FTM responder would imply that AP responds to all FTM requests.
> Default is considered to be disabled.
> 
> changes in V3:
>  - fixed the ambiguous ftm responder disable case to be not supported

For reasons unknown to me, this patchset made it neither to the list
nor, consequently, patchwork. Please resend.

johannes



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