On 09/03/2012 03:23 PM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote: > This patch enables drivers to implement mac address based > access control in AP/P2P GO mode. There is a new flag in > nl80211_feature_flags (NL80211_FEATURE_MAC_ACL) for drivers > to advertise this capability. There are two acl policies, white > and black list, under which an acl list can be configured in the > driver. Driver has to advertise the maximum number of mac address > entries in acl list through max_acl_mac_addrs of wiphy. > > ACL is enabled/disabled based on attribute NL80211_ATTR_MAC_ACL which > is passed in start_ap. A list of stations' mac addresses is set > using NL80211_CMD_SET_MAC_ACL. I would prefer a bit more documentation how this works from user space or driver's point of view. I think I can guess how it's supposed to work, but it would be good to document it explicitly. For example, it wasn't clear how he driver must function when NL80211_ACL_POLICY_ACCEPT or DENY is used. > Driver may have to make sure to clear it's acl list when doing start/stop ap. s/may/must/? Kalle -- 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
