[PATCH 07/15] supplicant: Allow user-defined defaults for Interworking network blocks.

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:21:52PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 03/05/2014 04:19 PM, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
> > This way users can still configure the HT over-rides and some other
> > constraints that Interworking has no interest or ability to configure.
> 
> Jouni:  Would you re-consider this patch?
> 
> This one, and a smaller additional patch fixes wpa_supplicant
> so that it can do 802.11r and interworking at the same time.

I don't think this type of extension of network blocks to yet another
new not-really-a-network-profile use case is the cleanest way of doing
this. FT support should certainly not depend on this (and well, it
doesn't, i.e., FT for Interworking case was enabled automatically based
on driver capabilities).

> > network={
> >     interworking_defaults=1
> >     disable_ht=0
> >     disable_ht40=1
> >     disable_sgi=0
> >     ht_mcs=""
> >     disable_max_amsdu=-1
> >     ampdu_factor=-1
> >     ampdu_density=-1
> > }

None of those parameters seem to make much sense for me apart from some
very special testing purposes. Interworking networks are supposed to
work automatically and without requiring this type of overrides, i.e.,
driver capabilities are supposed to be enabled automatically. I cannot
really think of a real use apart from testing something and that does
not seem like a sufficient justification to add the extra complexity.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA