From: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>
To: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>, Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"francesco@dolcini.it" <francesco@dolcini.it>,
Pete Hsieh <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com>,
rafael.beims <rafael.beims@toradex.com>,
Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
Subject: RE: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:09:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PA4PR04MB963851B236BFB174CD5FF88FD1172@PA4PR04MB9638.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PA4PR04MB96383D46C1187C237DFC7988D1122@PA4PR04MB9638.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
> From: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 4:35 PM
> To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>; linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org;
> LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>;
> francesco@dolcini.it; Pete Hsieh <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com>; rafael.beims
> <rafael.beims@toradex.com>; Francesco Dolcini
> <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
> Subject: RE: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host
> mlme
>
> > From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2024 5:42 AM
> > To: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>
> > Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>;
> > linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>;
> > Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>; francesco@dolcini.it; Pete Hsieh
> > <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com>; rafael.beims <rafael.beims@toradex.com>;
> > Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
> > Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support
> > host mlme
> >
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> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 04:00:17AM +0000, David Lin wrote:
> > > Can you let me know what does "external_auth" mean?
> >
> > Look around for NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH. It's in nl80211.h with
> > plenty of comments. (And also cfg80211_ops::cfg80211_ops,
> > cfg80211_external_auth_request, ...)
> >
> > I've never looked at this interface before, personally. It seems to
> > rely on cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx support too; that seems to exist in
> > mwifiex, although I have no clue the quality of support there.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Thanks for your information. If "external_auth" means only offloading SAE
> authentication to SME of wpa_supplicant and hostapd (driver should hook
> cfg80211_ops. external_auth() to achieve this kind of offloading).
> Then it is not the same as the job done by this patch.
> This patch fully leverages SME of wpa_supplicant and hostapd.
>
> David
Should I give more detail information about this question? BTW, if there are other blocked items to let this patch be accepted,
please let me know. Thanks for your help.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-25 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-18 6:06 [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme David Lin
2024-04-18 6:06 ` [PATCH v10 1/2] wifi: mwifiex: add host mlme for client mode David Lin
2024-04-18 6:37 ` Francesco Dolcini
2024-04-18 8:24 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-04-18 6:06 ` [PATCH v10 2/2] wifi: mwifiex: add host mlme for AP mode David Lin
2024-04-18 6:47 ` [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme Marcel Holtmann
2024-04-18 9:08 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-04-18 9:15 ` [EXT] " Marcel Holtmann
2024-04-19 4:00 ` David Lin
2024-04-19 21:42 ` Brian Norris
2024-04-22 8:34 ` David Lin
2024-04-23 2:29 ` David Lin
2024-04-24 8:11 ` Marcel Holtmann
2024-04-25 2:40 ` David Lin
2024-04-26 1:08 ` Brian Norris
2024-05-02 8:34 ` David Lin
2024-05-13 1:27 ` David Lin
2024-04-26 1:00 ` Brian Norris
2024-04-26 3:04 ` David Lin
2024-04-25 2:09 ` David Lin [this message]
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