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Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Add module parameter to disable HW crypto

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On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:27 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > Add a module parameter to rt61 and rt73 to disable
> > HW crypto. The option should only be checked when
> > determining if the SUPPORT_HW_CRYPTO flag should
> > be set or not.
> 
> I wonder if instead mac80211 should have an option for this. It'd be
> trivial to simply not tell the hardware about the keys.

Then it probably needs to be a per physical interface configuration option,
which can only be toggled when the interface is down. Because I don't think
you want the option to be global for all available physical interfaces.

Ivo
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