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Re: [PATCH] ath5k: add support of HW encryption in management frames

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On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 18:55 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:

> > By the way, current secured mesh requires the AES CMAC to be enabled.
> > But without enabling IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE, the key cannot be added
> > since this cipher suite is considered not supported. But actually AES
> > CMAC can be done in software. Any work around on this?
> > 
> I think you can override this by supplying your own custom set
> of available ciphers. This is done by setting
> 	hw.wiphy->cipher_suites 
> 	hw.wiphy->n_cipher_suites
> during the initalization of the driver (i.e.: before
> ieee80211_register_hw(hw) is called).

Yes, that's the way you could do it, but my argument that it's pointless
still stands, so what good would it do?

johannes

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