On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:41 +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > > > > > > I would think that, indeed, it *is* its job since its job is > > > key/algorithm selection and 11n limits the choices. > > > > > > > depends on priorities, maybe the security selection should limit the > > 11n... IMHO, security should be in higher priority since the user > > explicitly said he wants TKIP > > > > > How about we simply put the 11n information element into the generic IE > > > and have mac80211 use that? > > > > > > > in mac80211 we perfectly know what the AP supports (in > > ieee80211_send_assoc, I can read the IEs from the AP) , that's no the > > issue here, the issue is what security alg the user will chose in the > > 4way. This decision affects the associate even though it occurs after > > the association > > Ah, so you mean if the user chose TKIP then we should associate as a > legacy STA? > I think so... If the AP is N-only we would be in trouble... > johannes > -- Emmanuel Grumbach egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
