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Re: [PATCHv3] mac80211: dynamic wep

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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 01:50 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 00:12 -0400, Volker Braun wrote:
> > 1) Instead of hacking around ieee80211_privacy_mismatch, remove it
> > completely. It serves no useful purpose.
> 
> The purpose seems to be to avoid associating to BSSes that have privacy
> enabled when we don't have any keys nor a tool told us that it's ok.
> This again raises the question of why wpa_supplicant doesn't set the
> IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT_802_1X flag that should get you around the mismatch
> check.

In any case, I don't mind removing it, but if you do it please also
remove the stuff related to it from ioctl.c and the key_mgmt variable.

johannes

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