Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] nl80211: Allow SAE Authentication for NL80211_CMD_CONNECT
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2018-01-04 14:48:52
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2018-01-04 14:48:52
On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 18:33 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
From: Srinivas Dasari <redacted> This commit allows SAE Authentication for NL80211_CMD_CONNECT interface, provided this is supported by the host driver.
Now this is interesting - there could potentially be a case where you request SAE, but don't set NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPP[ORT], and then SAE *isn't* supported, right? What happens then? Do we expect the driver to reject it? Better at least document the expected behaviour... johannes