Johannes Berg wrote: > Looking through wpa_supplicant and then through the kernel I notice that > we currently in the kernel special-case some things in SIOCSIWAUTH, for > example IW_AUTH_WPA_VERSION is ignored since we rely on the IE that wpa > supplicant gave us. > FWIW we currently use the value of IW_AUTH_WPA_VERSION to generate the correct cipher suite selector when forming the set-key request for our hard MAC device. We use other IW_AUTH settings too. > ... > > I'm inclined to just require userspace to put both the IE and the > individual settings into the relevant nl80211 messages, but then we > might just as well piece the IE together from those settings, no? > We certainly need the individual settings. It is nice that wpa_supplicant generates the IE - it saved me writing the code - but that's just being lazy. We still have to modify the IE anyway to add WMM stuff. Mark -- Mark Powell mailto:Mark.Powell@xxxxxxx Group Leader, Host Drivers Tel: +44 (0)1223 692000 CSR, Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB24 0WZ, UK To access the latest news from CSR copy this link into a web browser: http://www.csr.com/email_sig.php To get further information regarding CSR, please visit our Investor Relations page at http://ir.csr.com/csr/about/overview - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
