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SubjectRE: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme
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> From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2024 5:42 AM
> To: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>;
> linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; Kalle
> Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>; francesco@dolcini.it; Pete Hsieh
> <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com>; rafael.beims <rafael.beims@toradex.com>;
> Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
> Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host
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> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 04:00:17AM +0000, David Lin wrote:
> > Can you let me know what does "external_auth" mean?
>
> Look around for NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH. It's in nl80211.h with
> plenty of comments. (And also cfg80211_ops::cfg80211_ops,
> cfg80211_external_auth_request, ...)
>
> I've never looked at this interface before, personally. It seems to rely on
> cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx support too; that seems to exist in mwifiex,
> although I have no clue the quality of support there.
>
> Brian

Thanks for your information. If "external_auth" means only offloading SAE
authentication to SME of wpa_supplicant and hostapd (driver should hook
cfg80211_ops. external_auth() to achieve this kind of offloading).
Then it is not the same as the job done by this patch.
This patch fully leverages SME of wpa_supplicant and hostapd.

David

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