Thought the underline driver MLME can handle association temporal rejection with comeback, it is still useful to notify this to user space, as user space might want to handle the temporal rejection differently. For example, in case the comeback time is too long, user space can deauthenticate immediately and try to associate with a different AP.
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| @@ -1232,6 +1232,11 @@ · 1231 unmodified lines | ||
| 1232 | 1232 | * &NL80211_ATTR_FILS_NONCES - for FILS Nonces |
| 1233 | 1233 | * (STA Nonce 16 bytes followed by AP Nonce 16 bytes) |
| 1234 | 1234 | * |
| 1235 | + * @NL80211_CMD_ASSOC_COMEBACK: notification about an association | |
| 1236 | + * temporal rejection with comeback. The event includes %NL80211_ATTR_MAC | |
| 1237 | + * to describe the BSSID address of the AP and %NL80211_ATTR_TIMEOUT to | |
| 1238 | + * specify the timeout value. | |
| 1239 | + * | |
| 1235 | 1240 | * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number |
| 1236 | 1241 | * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use |
| 1237 | 1242 | */ |
| @@ -1474,6 +1479,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { · 236 unmodified lines | ||
| 1474 | 1479 | |
| 1475 | 1480 | NL80211_CMD_SET_FILS_AAD, |
| 1476 | 1481 | |
| 1482 | + NL80211_CMD_ASSOC_COMEBACK, | |
| 1483 | + | |
| 1477 | 1484 | /* add new commands above here */ |
| 1478 | 1485 | |
| 1479 | 1486 | /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */ |