On Tuesday 12 June 2007 06:58, Mark Powell wrote: > Very interesting. It raised a question in my mind... > When associating to a WPA network, at what point should the driver open > the controlled port? > With wext/wpa_supplicant, the driver relies on knowing that the > supplicant sets the pairwise key first and group key second and can open > the controlled port after the second key. > > Can we tie down the correct behaviour more tightly in cfg80211/nl80211? > Shouldn't wpa_supplicant know when the connection is ready? It has support for dormant mode, so the link can be held down by userspace until it is ready. The driver shouldn't need to figure out when the link is ready to go up. -Michael Wu
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