On Fri, 2017-12-15 at 08:51 +0000, Srinivas Dasari wrote: > > don’t we actually need a flag in NL80211_CMD_CONNECT that indicates that > > userspace is able to actually handle NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH. It is nice > > >that there is feature for userspace to see if the driver supports it, but > > how is the driver able to offload successfully if it doesn’t know that > > userspace can do it. > > Our idea was the driver to timeout the connect for the scenarios where the > external auth (SAE) status is not indicated. > I agree with you on user space indicating this capability to the driver. > Is it a fair idea to extend enum cfg80211_assoc_req_flags for this ?
Seems reasonable to me - though you still need to deal with userspace not responding I guess. johannes
