[PATCH] Revert "wpa_supplicant: Send EAPOL frames over nl80211 where available"

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu Jul 20 12:21:45 PDT 2023


Hi Chaitanya,

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 4:09 PM Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing logs. The only difference to the working logs I could see was
> missing print "nl80211: Send over control port", so, I guess the M2 EAPoL frame
> is never even sent out and is dropped. But don't quite see how it
> could happen from
> a quick look at the code.

Let me ask you: what is the impact of reverting 144314eaa7e0
("wpa_supplicant: Send EAPOL frames over nl80211
where available")? What exactly will stop working (what is the
usecase, system, kernel version)?

Thanks



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