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Re: mt76x[02]u 802.11w support

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 04:46:28PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:07:43AM -0500, Sid Hayn wrote:
> > Interestingly when I asked for the monitor mode patch to be ported it
> > was initially refused and then just kind of happened a few weeks
> > later.
> 
> It was not quite like that. It was refused to apply on 4.19-rcX due to
> -next merge -rc conflict that it will cause. And it was promised
> that fixes will be backported thought -stable.
> 
> Regarding this case, there is no single commit that add 802.11w support
> we could request to add to -stable. It was added together with other
> features in:
> 
> commit 0ae976a11b4fb5704b597e103b5189237641c1a1
> Author: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Sep 6 11:18:41 2018 +0200
> 
>     mt76x0: init hw capabilities
> 
> which depend on switching mt76x0u to mt76-usb layer.
> 
> So I'm not sure how this request should be satisfied.

Can you check if adding

ieee80211_hw_set(rt2x00dev->hw, MFP_CAPABLE);

is sufficient to add support for 802.11w ? 

Most likely it is, since in 4.19 mt76x0_set_key() do not allow to
set unsupported ciphers. However it returns -EINVAL instead of
-EOPNOTSUPP, so I want to be sure.

Thanks
Stanislaw



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