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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Set WEP ciphers

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On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:42 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 05:36 +0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > If you're talking about static WEP, then the ciphers are determined by
> > the WEP keys that have been set with iwconfig, and you determine
> > WEP40/WEP104 based on the length of the current WEP TX index.
> 
> Exactly. But we need to pass this cipher info to the connect API anyway.
> With cfg80211 key rework [1], driver's add_key callback won't be called
> until it is associated. If driver needs the cipher info for association,
> passing it to the connect API is the only choice.

The other question is whether we should actually pass the real keys to
connect() too, at this point, instead of waiting for add_key, but I
haven't really formed an opinion on that.

johannes

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