[RFC] AP: Add support for full station state

[Peer, Ilan]

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> From: Hostap [mailto:hostap-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Ilan
> Peer
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 19:22
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> Cc: Beker, Ayala
> Subject: [RFC] AP: Add support for full station state
> 
> From: Ayala Beker <ayala.beker at intel.com>
> 
> Add support for drivers that support full AP client state, i.e., can handle
> adding stations that are not associated yet. For such drivers, add a station after
> processing the authentication request, instead of adding it in the association
> response callback.
> 
> Doing so is beneficial in cases that the driver cannot handle the add station
> request, in which case it is useless to perform the complete connection
> establishment.
> 

Please note that the patch still requires couple of fixes in cfg80211.

Regards,

Ilan.