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Re: [PATCH v1] cfg80211: Support for 4-way handshake offloading for WPA2-Personal

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On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 18:54 +0300, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:

> > > + * @NL80211_ATTR_4WAY_HANDSHAKE_OFFLOAD_AP: This is a flag that indicates
> > > to + *	WPA supplicant that 4-way handshake has been offloaded to the
> > > firmware + *	in the AP mode.
> > > + *	In this case, WPA supplicant will provide driver with PSK for
> > > + *	start_ap()
> > 
> > I think you should use the nl80211 driver flags, not extra attributes
> > here.
> 
> I thought I need to use same approach as for other flags. All other use bit in 
> wiphy.flags and NL80211_ATTR_xxx. And reason is simple - in the NL80211, it is 
> enum, while for the driver one need to reserve a bit. This is how other flags 
> are dealt with:
> 
> 	if ((dev->wiphy.flags & WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN) &&
> 	    nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORT_IBSS_RSN))
> 		goto nla_put_failure;

Yes, but we abandoned this approach later, in favour of the nl80211
feature flags.

> I want to do some more work exploring how this offload serves in real life, 
> will submit when (if?) it will be ready.

Ok, sounds good!

johannes

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