linux-kernel - Re: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:42:20 -0700
From: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@....com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
	"francesco@...cini.it" <francesco@...cini.it>,
	Pete Hsieh <tsung-hsien.hsieh@....com>,
	"rafael.beims" <rafael.beims@...adex.com>,
	Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@...adex.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH v10 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host
 mlme

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