On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 17:59 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2012 14:28:00 Kalle Valo wrote: > > Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:19 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > >> Previously, it was not possible to connect > > >> to networks which requires 11w to be supported > > >> by the stations. > > > > > > If at all possible if we can do this without module parameters, that > > > would be great. Otherwise how is userspace supposed to connect to a > > > W-capable network without twiddling driver-specific module options, > > > something we've tried really hard to not do? Module options really > > > aren't any different than private ioctls or IWPRIV commands... > > > > Sure, and that's how it works with properly supported hardware. But p54 > > is so old that the user will need to buy newer hardware if he really > > needs 11w support out-of-box. IMHO there's no point of making a huge > > effort to add 11w support to older hardware, there are more important > > things to fix in Linux wireless stack than that. > > Dan's concern has been addressed by v4 of this patch > (which depends on johannes' "add mgmt key flags" patch). > p54 should now provide basic support for 11w protected > networks w/o messing with any module parameters. Great, thanks! Dan -- 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
