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Re: [PATCH v3] cfg80211: rework key operation

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On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:37 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 16:38 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 
> > This breaks wireless-tools for WEP with fullmac cards because "iwconfig
> > key" doesn't send the AUTH command. Is it expected?
> 
> I did expect it to break iwm because I couldn't make sense of the iwm
> code, unfortunately, sorry about that. But the key needed for
> authentication should be being passed to the connect() call too.

I should also note that you can now get rid of the stuff in iwm that
caches the keys etc -- key callbacks will only be called after
connecting.

As discussed with Samuel, there's a possibility to pass _all_ WEP keys
directly to connect(), if desirable, instead of adding them with the key
hooks later.

johannes

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