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This clarifies the expected driver behavior on the older NL80211_ATTR_MAC and NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ attributes and adds a new set of similar attributes with _HINT postfix to enable use of a recommendation of the initial BSS to choose. This can be helpful for some drivers that can avoid an additional full scan on connection request if the information is provided to them (user space tools like wpa_supplicant already has that information available based on earlier scans). In addition, this can be used to get more expected behavior for cases where a specific BSS should be picked first based on operations like Interworking network selection or WPS. These cases were already easily addressed with drivers that leave BSS selection to user space, but there was no convenient way to do this with drivers that take care of BSS selection internally without using the NL80211_ATTR_MAC which is not really desired since it is needed for other purposes to force the association to remain with the same BSS. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> [add const, fix policy] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> |
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