On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 09:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 20:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Move key handling wireless extension ioctls from mac80211 to cfg80211 > > so that all drivers that implement the cfg80211 operations get wext > > compatibility. > > > > Note that this drops the SIOCGIWENCODE ioctl. This means that iwconfig > > will no longer report "Security mode:open" or "Security mode:restricted" > > for mac80211. However, what we displayed there (the authentication algo > > used) was actually wrong -- linux/wireless.h states that this setting is > > meant to differentiate between "Refuse non-encoded packets" and "Accept > > non-encoded packets". Dropping SIOCGIWENCODE also means that you can no > > longer display the key currently in use. We believe this is a misfeature > > in wireless extensions and unneeded; cfg80211 currently provides no way > > to implement it. > > Does this mean inability to display current WEP key index, or just the > key that the card is supposedly using? Seeing the index may be > important, but the ability to pull the actual key out of the card was > not consistently implemented across WEXT drivers. I actually added that back, seems people want to be able to pull the key out... I'll address your other email separately. johannes
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