On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:48:53PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Take a look at ieee80211_sta_scan_result() in mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c. > Note that it returns custom events for the WPA & RSN IEs. That's just > wrong. We should be using already-defined events. I don't think the "already-defined events" were defined when that code was written.. Sure, now it should be updated to use the WEXT-18 -based events. > I don't quite get why mac80211/d80211 was so behind in wireless > extensions support. Didn't Jouni and Devicescape basically _write_ > WE-18/19 WPA support? Did d80211 just not get the love that > wpa_supplicant and the other drivers got when they were updated to WE-18 > and later? Well, I may have added WPA support to WE-18, but only after having implemented support for WPA using custom events (the only real option available prior to WE-18). Devicescape code needed to work with number of Linux kernels that did not include WE-18, so it had to continue using those custom events. Looks like no one has had enough time or interest to update it to use the events defined in WE-18. wpa_supplicant supports both mechanisms for receiving the IEs. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - 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
