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Re: [PATCH 2/2] nl80211: use src and dst addr attribute for control port tx/rx

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Hi Markus,

First, I think you should squash these two patches, there's no point in
adding unused attributes :-)

> The respective arguments are optional on tx and included on rx.
> Therefore unaware existing software is not affected.

This may be true, but doesn't *new* hostapd have to know that this is
supported, or otherwise fall back to sending the frames as data frames?

Seems to me a (driver) capability for this is needed.

johannes




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