On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 18:35 +0300, Sergey Matyukevich wrote: > In our case, we are experimenting with applications running along with > hostapd and enabling band steering and client roaming functionality. > As I mentioned, various approaches are being examined, including > both pure nl80211-based approach as well as adding direct hooks > to hostapd.
To be honest, I'm torn on this. On the one hand, I think it's fairly reasonable functionality, but on the other hand I'm not sure we should encourage such separate approaches - it seems to me that will lead to a lot of fragmentation and much harder debuggability for upstream where these things get used. It's also a bunch of code we have to maintain, for nothing that seems of use to the community - since it's the sort of flexibility explicitly designed for non-public code (otherwise it could just be part of hostapd; actually it could even if it were non-public, at least in theory, unless you're planning it as a value-add thing to go with an open source hostapd ...). So while I don't want to stop you entirely in your tracks with this, I'd really prefer you explore other options regarding where to put your client steering functionality, perhaps even working on hostapd. johannes
