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Re: [PATCH 1/4 v3] mac80211: Enable mesh security from userspace

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On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 12:17 -0800, Javier Cardona wrote:
> Userspace can enable mesh security by providing an RSN IE and setting
> the MESH_SETUP_ENABLE_SECURITY flag.
> 
> Also, rename vendor_ie to just ie to reflect that the same attribute may
> be used to pass other IEs, like for instance RSN.
> 
> Changes from v2: (from Johannes)
>  - Fix API backward compatibilty of NL80211_MESH_SETUP_IE
>  - Remove check for presence of RSN IE

Should be after --- really :-)

> + * @is_secure: or not

Given what we just discussed over in the other thread, should we rename
this to "userspace_station_mgmt" or something like that?

Also, does it make sense to advertise support for this somehow?
Otherwise the new tools will have strange failure cases on older
kernels; and I can also imagine situations where the mesh APIs are in
firmware or so that can't cope with userspace station mgmt.

johannes

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