RE: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme

[David Lin]

> From: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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