> Works great. Is there a possibility that a toggle for this could be > accepted upstream? After all, WDS isn't really standardized.
I general, I'd say yes. However! There's ongoing to work to make EAPOL frames go over nl80211 instead, see e.g. ieee80211_tx_control_port() in mac80211, and this patch for hostapd: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1108185/ I'd prefer to have it in this path, by having a flag like the "bool unencrypted" passed to ieee80211_tx_control_port(), (and replace "bool unencrypted" by "unsigned int flags"). That way, we don't have to actually keep any state. In mac80211, we can pass this down to __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit() and ieee80211_build_hdr() in the ctrl_flags or something like that. It doesn't actually need to be a control or info flag, so we could add yet another argument to save the space, but dunno if that's worth it now. johannes
