I am describing another scenario where we may use this patch. The patch heading says 'mac80211: add op to configure default key id to driver'. Its upto you and Yoni to decide. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 14:06 +0530, Ravi Sharma wrote: >> Hi All >> I know this use case is quite trivial looking regarding WEP (Since it >> is going to be deprecated), we faced a issue with minap (softap) in >> WEP security with auth mode as shared. Since the default key is not >> passed to driver, we can not program firmware default key idx (default >> key is programmed when data packet exchange started, looking into type >> of encryption) and the handshake failed in shared auth mode. In open >> mode, there is no need for this. > > Now you're talking about something else entirely? What does this have to > do with auto-ARP responses?? > > Can we get that story straight? :-) And then a patch that actually > explains & documents it ... Remember that the changelog should indicate > why you're changing something. > > johannes > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
