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Re: [PATCH] nl80211 connect API support

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On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:50 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:17 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 
> > Johannes, I think we need a way in cfg80211 to tell connect vs.
> > auth/assoc. The current capability method (nl80211_send_wiphy) cannot do
> > this. For example,
> > 
> > 	if (dev->ops->connect || dev->ops->auth)
> > 		NLA_PUT_U32(msg, i, NL80211_CMD_CONNECT);
> > 
> > We need to either make NL80211_CMD_CONNECT only depends on ops->connect
> > or make NL80211_CMD_AUTH depends on ops->auth. Johannes, which one do
> > you prefer?
> 
> The latter is already there as far as I can see?
> 
>         CMD(auth, AUTHENTICATE);
>         CMD(assoc, ASSOCIATE);
>         CMD(deauth, DEAUTHENTICATE);
>         CMD(disassoc, DISASSOCIATE);
> 
> so you should be able to check for these.

My bad. I'll use NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE.

Thanks,
-yi

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