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Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify driver about auth/assoc

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On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:14 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In P2P client mode, the GO (AP) to connect to might
> have periods of time where it is not available due
> to powersave. To allow the driver to sync with them
> and send frames to the GO only when it is available
> add a new callback prepare_auth_assoc (and also the
> corresponding finish_auth_assoc). They are invoked
> for each authentication/association as described in
> the documentation.

Doesn't anybody have comments on this?

I can't really decide whether I want to change the bss_config flow to
maybe set the BSSID first and add a preauth flag there or something, or
use this way. This way certainly has less impact on existing drivers...

johannes

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