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

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Hi, Johannes

> Well, that's a separate question. Of course we could enable it, but what
> would the point be? You don't have CCM for management frames right now,
> so CMAC is pretty useless? And if you had CCM for management frames, say
> with the things discussed in the p54 thread, then you could just enable
> both, right?

We will load the ath5k with nohwcrypt=, so no hardware encryption at
all. But to proceed with key installation using AES CMAC to be
processed in software, we need somethings related to:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg96187.html

Otherwise, we may need to bypass the cfg80211_supported_cipher_suite checking:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg95951.html

Is this relevant?

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