[PATCH 1/1] hostapd: Add support for SAE offload for STA/AP interface

[Vinayak Yadawad]

Hi Jouni,

>That commit does not modify include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h which is the
>place where such things should be documented for the kernel interface.
>It would be good to get an additional kernel change to update the
>documentation of NL80211_CMD_PORT_AUTHORIZED there to match the extended
>implementation. The current description is clearly out-of-date and it
>would seem to imply that this extended use case is not really expected.
We have raised a request for updating documentation for the
NL80211_CMD_PORT_AUTHORIZED event.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/f746b59f41436e9df29c24688035fbc6eb91ab06.1699510229.git.vinayak.yadawad@broadcom.com/

Regards,
Vinayak

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 7:00 PM Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 04:00:10PM +0530, Vinayak Yadawad wrote:
> > The commit below adds support for nl80211_send_port_authorized() to be
> > used for both STA/GC and AP/GO.
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=e4e7e3af73694380f0d9a742d13b80598a3393e9
>
> That commit does not modify include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h which is the
> place where such things should be documented for the kernel interface.
> It would be good to get an additional kernel change to update the
> documentation of NL80211_CMD_PORT_AUTHORIZED there to match the extended
> implementation. The current description is clearly out-of-date and it
> would seem to imply that this extended use case is not really expected.
>
> --
> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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