Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 17:19 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>
>> Anyway, if you just want to test Michael MIC error processing on a
>> client, force mac80211 to do software encryption
>
> On that matter, should we put a debugfs control knob in place to
> completely disable HW encryption in mac80211, so we don't need this
> override in all drivers?
I think there's a need for this and we should do it. Just look at this
commit from earlier this week:
commit 05e6eb6f607cc3623c50b2a7c62b29ba6707a316
Author: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 29 08:30:54 2008 -0400
ath5k: enable hardware encryption for WEP
This change re-enables hardware encryption for ath5k after setting up
mac80211 to handle the initialization vectors which happens to make it
work. Add a module param (nohwcrypt) to optionally turn it off.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Having a support in mac80211 would make it easier both for the driver
developers and users.
--
Kalle Valo
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