On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 10:00 +0200, Nicolas Cavallari wrote: > I just have a question here : when auth frames are not delivered to > userspace, mac80211 will respond to them, and also uses them to detect > node reboot. If you register for auth frames, mac80211 will still send > auth frames as soon as a new station is seen, which might be confusing > for user space. Is that ok to do this ? Or should userspace have more > control over how mac80211 sends auth frames ? Please read the code. If userspace registers for them, mac80211 will never do anything with the frame. > There is also another thing to consider if you want to send auth frames > from userspace, as CMD_FRAME requires a frequency, which in IBSS mode, > can change anytime without userspace being notified. If you only have to > answer to received auth frames, this is easier as you can reuse the > frequency given by nl80211 when receiving the auth frame. But if you > want to send a auth frame independently, how do you get the frequency to > use ? You check the BSS info, that's trivial. johannes -- 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
