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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: Add TX/RX commands for Action frames

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On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:30 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> Assuming the later change in mac80211 is to start rejecting Action
> frames for which there is no known internal handler or register user
> space handler, the applications using this without the new
> registration mechanism would indeed need to be updated.

But we definitely want that, and it's trivial, so why not actually start
rejecting unknown frames?

<snip extensibility discussion>

So which ones do we need now? Could we start with code to reject unkonwn
ones, registering what we currently need (since there's a reason you
wrote this patch), and then extend as it becomes necessary, for instance
for vendor frames etc?

johannes

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