Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix CMD_FRAME for AP_VLAN

On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 13:31 +0200, M. Braun wrote:

Am 03.10.2016 um 13:03 schrieb M. Braun:

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because the in ieee80211_mgmt_tx the

ups, that was the patch itself.

I think I carried it over from ieee80211_add_key, that does

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       if (mac_addr) {
               if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif))
                       sta = sta_info_get(sdata, mac_addr);
               else
                       sta = sta_info_get_bss(sdata, mac_addr);

Ok, so that's there, but I still don't see the point - sta->sdata->bss
will be NULL for any mesh STA.

Thomas, do you remember anything about why you did this back in commit
ff973af74aa6932ca4758266bccec68e8135ddf7
Author: Thomas Pedersen [off-list ref]
Date:   Tue May 3 16:57:12 2011 -0700

    nl80211: allow installing keys for a meshif

?

(yeah, long shot, it's 5.5 years ago ...)

johannes