Hi Jouni, On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:11 +0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:55:31PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > > > - * authenticate - Request driver to authenticate > > + * authenticate - Request driver to authenticate (deprecated) > > > + * This is an optional function that to make compatibility for wireless > > + * stack that doesn't support connect API when driver SME is used > > + * (WPA_DRIVER_FLAGS_SME). > > Thanks for the patch. If I understood this correctly, wpa_supplicant > would be converted to use the new connect command whenever it is > supported. While it is nice to get support for connect added, this is > not how it should be done as it breaks all the new work we have been > enabling with mac80211. The separate auth/assoc commands should be the > default operation and only if the driver does not support this, should > the connect command be used. The connect API wraps auth/assoc commands in cfg80211 SME. For example, when cfg80211 receives NL80211_CMD_CONNECT (cfg80211_connect), it checks if connect API is supported or not. If it is not supported (for all mac80211 based drivers), it uses the common cfg80211_conn_do_work() to do auth/assoc the same way as it handles NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE. So from user space point of view, if connect API is supported, it can use it directly and let cfg80211 to maintain the state of auth and assoc. Thanks, -yi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
