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Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mac80211: Disable HT negotiation with TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:47:34PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 18:40 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > IEEE802.11n does not allow TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher in HT mode.
> > Connect in non-ht mode if either of these ciphers is cofigured as
> > pairwise.

> >  net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |    1 +
> >  net/mac80211/mlme.c        |    9 ++++++++-
> >  net/mac80211/wext.c        |    5 ++++-
> >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Needs to touch cfg.c too, I think? 

I think you are referring to populating ucast_cipher in 
add_key() hook in cfg.c but we need the pairwise cipher before
starting the association in HT mode.

>I'd also prefer to avoid using the
> wext constants throughout mac80211.

ok.
> 
> johannes

Thanks for your comments.

Vasanth


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