[PATCH] mesh: Report mesh peer AID to kernel

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Jun 30 04:47:29 PDT 2016


On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 20:07 +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> On 2016年06月30日 18:37, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > How does "iw" come into play here?
> 
> We can create mesh network by iw command without wpa_supplicant.
> Like "sudo iw dev mesh0 mesh join mesh_id".
> Then, sta->mesh->aid is set in mesh_process_plink_frame() correclty.
> But sta->mesh->aid is not set when creating mesh by wpa_supplicant.
> So new interface is needed for wpa_supplicant.

Huh, ok, but that's not the real difference - the real difference is
who is doing the MPM, I guess? Please rephrase that appropriately, the
tool "iw" has no real impact on the difference.

johannes



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