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Re: WPA/RSN information in cfg80211?

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:12:19PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:00 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > As long as the information is available for the driver at the time of
> > association request, it does not really matter how that information got
> > there..
> 
> I'd have thought you would rather see the IE included to be able to
> experiment with new things easier ;)

Looks like there is some misunderstanding here.. What I meant with "the
information" was both the IE and the individual parameters. I do indeed
want to get both of these available to the drivers.

> I really can't decide which way to use. Piecing together the IE in the
> kernel and then just passing it doesn't seem like much overhead, but
> doing it in userspace gives us more freedom for experiments...

I believe both should be provided from user space and kernel has option
of using either one depending on needs.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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