On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:23 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > plain text document attachment (ieee80211w-sw-mgmt-ccmp.patch) > If driver/firmware/hardware does not support CCMP for management > frames, it can now request mac80211 to take care of encryption and > decryption of management frames (when MFP is enabled) in software. The > driver will need to add this new IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_SW_MGMT flag when a > CCMP key is being configured for TX side and return the encrypted frames > on RX side without RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED flag to use software CCMP for > management frames (but hardware for data frames). Wouldn't it be better to invert the meaning of the flag so we don't have to update all drivers now? It's likely that people won't test CCMP hw encryption and also that it won't work, I'd think, no? johannes
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