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Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 2/5] mac80211: allows driver to request a Phase 1 RX key

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> >  Right, in software we can keep a phase1 per AC but we don't need to in
> >  hardware since that's just the optimisation.
> 
> Correct, I'm just not sure how it's done for bcom cards.

I'm not entirely sure right now either.

> Eventually you want to update RX phase1 key into HW so you get your
> CPU utilization where it have to be, right?

Yeah, you would :) But that's something we're addressing anyway since
iwlwifi needs it too.

> >  > Phase1 for TX and RX are not the same, again because of the simple
> >  > reasone that number of transmitted and received packet is not the
> >  > same.
> >
> >  Hm, right. But if we go for pull mode for TX, we only need to have push
> >  mode for the phase1 rx key when that changes, no?
> 
> Emmanuel has prepared patches for TX pull mode  (phase2 only for now) .
> If this OK wiith I will resend the whole TKIP series with this change,
> leaving RX in pull mode.

You mean "RX in push mode" I think. Could you change that to a new
callback or so then as we discussed?

johannes

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