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[patch 3/7] b43: allow disabling hardware encryption

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For debugging it seems useful to be able to turn off
hardware encryption. With the changes I made to mac80211
that is now simple.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: wireless-dev-new/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-dev-new.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c	2007-08-23 23:32:08.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-dev-new/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c	2007-08-23 23:36:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ static int modparam_hwpctl;
 module_param_named(hwpctl, modparam_hwpctl, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(hwpctl, "Enable hardware-side power control (default off)");
 
+static int modparam_nohwcrypt;
+module_param_named(nohwcrypt, modparam_nohwcrypt, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nohwcrypt, "Disable hardware encryption.");
+
 static const struct ssb_device_id b43_ssb_tbl[] = {
 	SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 5),
 	SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 6),
@@ -2872,6 +2876,9 @@ static int b43_dev_set_key(struct ieee80
 	u8 index;
 	int err = -EINVAL;
 
+	if (modparam_nohwcrypt)
+		return -ENOSPC; /* User disabled HW-crypto */
+
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	switch (key->alg) {

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