Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2018-08-14

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow station search on AP/VLANs

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2018-08-14 14:41:35

On Tue, 2018-08-14 at 17:22 +0530, Manikanta Pubbisetty wrote:
On 8/14/2018 4:58 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
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On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 11:50 +0530, Manikanta Pubbisetty wrote:
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When mac80211 receives a packet, we interate over the list of
active interfaces to find the station(which transmitted the packet).
Currently, station search is not allowed on AP/VLAN interface; since
stations can also get mapped to AP/VLAN interfaces, they are worth
considering for station search.
I don't see how this makes sense. We use sta_info_get_bss() later, so
any AP/AP_VLAN would be OK, so we don't need to try it twice for
AP_VLAN?
AP/VLANs are skipped currently, we don't even get to sta_info_get_bss() 
if the iftype is AP/VLAN. No?
Yes, we won't try anything for the AP_VLANs, but when we hit the AP we
look up through everything, no?

Or maybe not - the _bss() just means fallback to AP?

Hmm. But even then I can't really see where this would apply?

johannes
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