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cfg80211: Improve Connect/Associate command documentation

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The roaming cases for the Connect command were not fully covered and
neither Connect nor Associate command uses of the prev_bssid parameter
were very clear. Add details to describe how the prev_bssid argument is
supposed to be used and when the driver should use association or
reassociation.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Jouni Malinen
2016-04-06 17:38:44 +03:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent bddf59046d
commit 35eb8f7b1a
2 changed files with 36 additions and 6 deletions
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@@ -429,7 +429,11 @@
* @NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE: association request and notification; like
* NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE but for Association and Reassociation
* (similar to MLME-ASSOCIATE.request, MLME-REASSOCIATE.request,
* MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm or MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm primitives).
* MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm or MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm primitives). The
* %NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID attribute is used to specify whether the
* request is for the initial association to an ESS (that attribute not
* included) or for reassociation within the ESS (that attribute is
* included).
* @NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE: deauthentication request and notification; like
* NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE but for Deauthentication frames (similar to
* MLME-DEAUTHENTICATION.request and MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication
@@ -479,6 +483,9 @@
* set of BSSID,frequency parameters is used (i.e., either the enforcing
* %NL80211_ATTR_MAC,%NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ or the less strict
* %NL80211_ATTR_MAC_HINT and %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ_HINT).
* %NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID can be used to request a reassociation within
* the ESS in case the device is already associated and an association with
* a different BSS is desired.
* Background scan period can optionally be
* specified in %NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD,
* if not specified default background scan configuration
@@ -1287,8 +1294,11 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* @NL80211_ATTR_RESP_IE: (Re)association response information elements as
* sent by peer, for ROAM and successful CONNECT events.
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID: previous BSSID, to be used by in ASSOCIATE
* commands to specify using a reassociate frame
* @NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID: previous BSSID, to be used in ASSOCIATE and CONNECT
* commands to specify a request to reassociate within an ESS, i.e., to use
* Reassociate Request frame (with the value of this attribute in the
* Current AP address field) instead of Association Request frame which is
* used for the initial association to an ESS.
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_KEY: key information in a nested attribute with
* %NL80211_KEY_* sub-attributes