[PATCH 08/44] nl80211: fix CMD_FRAME used with VLANs

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Feb 28 05:54:28 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:53:14PM +0100, michael-dev at fami-braun.de wrote:
> This is required for 802.11r with VLANs used in combination with over_ds,
> or the action reply frame won't get out on WiFi.
> 
> This is because kernel mac80211 CMD_FRAME uses get_sta instead of
> get_sta_bss, so the ifidx given needs to be the of the AP_VLAN iface.

I'm assuming this is referring to sta_info_get() and sta_info_get_bss()
instead of those get_sta/get_sta_bss which do not exist in mac80211.
Could you please clarify why this change is needed in hostapd instead of
mac80211?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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