Re: iwlagn broken in next-20090514 and next-20090515

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 20:10 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:50 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > > > > > Also wpa_supplicant is not happy:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > + wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /home/user/nico/ethz/wlan/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > > > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > There were some changes recently to this ioctl, but I am not familiar
> > > > with details. Johannes will know.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I'm not sure -- this happens when clearing keys. I'll look into
> > > it, we probably need to accept removing a key that doesn't exist.
> > 
> > Why bother (if that's actually the root cause)?  Maybe the supplicant
> > should be fixed.  Other drivers return ENOENT in this case, so mac80211
> > certainly isn't out-of-common-spec here now.
> 
> I just looked at the code in wpa_supplicant, it doesn't care a bit, just
> prints the error. Problem is users attribute any other breakage to the
> error it prints since our behaviour changed...

I meant "make wpa_supplicant not print anything out on -ENOENT".

Dan