On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 07:35, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 09:45 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > WE-18 introduced IW_AUTH_80211_AUTH_ALG and that should be used if user
> > space wants to explicitly select which 802.11 authentication algorithm
> > is to be used. Please let the IW_ENCODE_OPEN/RESTRICTED misuse die.
>
> Obviously we want it to die. But the better solution is to make apps
> that care about "exclude unencrypted", which there are few, use
> ENCODEEXT and keep OPEN/RESTRICTED be what most of the old drivers
> expect it to be; the selector for OS/SK. Then clean up all the double
> meanings with cfg80211 and call it day.
>
> Dan
As far as mac80211 is concerned, I think the patch is not needed.
mac80211 has done what it needed to do through the SIOC{S/G}IWAUTH
interface.
It seems the fix should be in userspace app, iwconfig should use the
SIOC{S/G}IWAUTH interface and resort to IW_ENCODE_RESTRICTED if it wants
to maintain the compatibility with old drivers.
Thanks,
Hong
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