On 07/01/2013 12:40, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:40:55AM +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote: >> On 02/01/2013 07:32, Antonio Quartulli wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 03:51:08 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: >>>> Any chance we could converge on a single implementation here? >>> >>> Maybe yes :) >>> >>> I think that leaving the station not AUTHenticated and let userspace do so would >>> be the best approach..but then we need a way to enable userspace to do it :) >> >> What would happen to old userspace that expect that to be done in the kernel ? > > if the userspace did not register for auth frames, then authentication will be > handled in the kernel (as I'm doing/changing now), while if the userspace > registered for such frames, then the kernel will assume that the authentication > will be handled by the userspace somehow and will not deal with it (but again, > in this way we need a command to let userspace set the AUTHenticated flag on a > station). That means two implementations, not one. And even with this current patch, old wpasupplicant starts 4 way handshake as soon as the NEW_STA event is received, even if the station is not authenticated by the kernel. I expect that some EAPOL frames will be dropped as a result. -- 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
