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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Support tx-hw-crypt with rx-sw-crypt.

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On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 06:52 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:

> The ieee80211_tkip_decrypt_data method is explicitly checking if the key is uploaded to hardware.

It is, but only for calling drv_update_tkip_key(), which you can make
the driver ignore.

> I need it to think that it is not uploaded to hardware as far as that check
> is concerned, otherwise packets will not decrypt properly.

I don't believe this is true. The stack was always designed so that if
you didn't decrypt the packet, you just don't set the flags indicating
it was decrypted and it'll be decrypted in software.

johannes

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