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Re: [RFC] mac80211: no missing key complaint if frame may not be for us

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On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:46 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> +		/* if there are multiple SSIDs on this BSSID, the frame may
> +		   not be for us anyway; so, check that either the frame is
> +		   unicast or that we are not in managed mode before
> +		   complaining about a missing key */
> +		if ((!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) ||
> +		     rx->sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA) &&
> +		    net_ratelimit())

I think this and the other patch looks good, though I'm not entirely
sure about the !STA test yet. I suppose though !STA means that we're in
some way an AP and then we're the only one sending real multicast
traffic.

Is it worth keeping this message at all?

johannes

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