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Re: Flag for detecting 802.11r Fast BSS Transition support

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Hi Brian,

>> So I guess you'd have to figure out what operations the drivers need to
>> support then? I'm not even sure how wpa_s would handle this for SME
>> offload devices.
> 
> I'm not intimately familiar with FT, but it looks like the only thing
> wpa_supplicant is asking for is NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES. I see
> exactly one driver that implements this, but there's no flag for it.
> Well, I guess we could just run the command and look for EOPNOTSUPP...

this kind of API design and usage is bad. Try-and-error approach is just not sustainable. Even while it is late to add a proper flag that indicates support, we need to do this to make nl80211 better for the future.

Regards

Marcel




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