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Re: [PATCH v2] p54: connect to 11w protected networks

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On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 18:10 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2012 17:55:42 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 17:47 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > On Friday 07 September 2012 14:17:14 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 16:54 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you want this for your driver, I'll commit this:
> > > > 
> > > > http://p.sipsolutions.net/ea2e3dbe980f5db8.txt
> > > 
> > > Won't this totally disable the crypto offload
> > > capabilities in AP mode?
> > 
> > Yes, though we could add an nl80211 attribute that
> > allows hostapd to tell us, and then if it did tell
> > us we could know and do the right thing here.
> 
> Well, if we want to do the right thing here, then I
> guess we should go for another alternative: a rxkey
> manager of some sorts. So, we delete keys from the
> firmware context once MFP comes into the game.

That's kinda what I do though, the flag tells you (at key installation)
whether MFP will be used or not. It's just that in the AP case, mac80211
doesn't actually know.

johannes

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