hostapd: add 'driver' command support (under ANDROID flag)

[Garcia, Jeremie]

Hello Jouni,

Thanks for answering.
I understand your comment.
In order to remain vendor agnostic, I initially planned to use the vendor extension functionality ("vendor" command).
However, this feature is available from kernel 3.14. However I would need to deal with older kernels.
So to remain backward compatible with older kernels, I wanted to use the DRIVER command instead.

Best regards
Jeremie


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From: hostap-bounces at lists.shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-bounces at lists.shmoo.com] On Behalf Of Jouni Malinen
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 5:37 PM
To: hostap at lists.shmoo.com
Subject: Re: hostapd: add 'driver' command support (under ANDROID flag)

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 02:25:22PM +0000, Garcia, Jeremie wrote:
> Please find attached 2 patches to make hostapd support "driver" command in an Android context.
> It is a mirror of what has been done for wpa_supplicant.

Why would this be needed in hostapd? That driver command in wpa_supplicant is a good example of how things should not be done and unless there is a strong justification for adding that to hostapd, I'd rather not do that.

The proper approach for adding new control interface functionality is by adding commands that can be implemented in driver independent way.

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