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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Set WEP ciphers
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:42:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249868558.3967.32.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249680982.26088.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 05:36 +0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> If you're talking about static WEP, then the ciphers are determined by
> the WEP keys that have been set with iwconfig, and you determine
> WEP40/WEP104 based on the length of the current WEP TX index.

Exactly. But we need to pass this cipher info to the connect API anyway.
With cfg80211 key rework [1], driver's add_key callback won't be called
until it is associated. If driver needs the cipher info for association,
passing it to the connect API is the only choice.

Thanks,
-yi

1. http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124705584228953&w=2


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-10  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-06 19:04 [PATCH] cfg80211: Set WEP ciphers Samuel Ortiz
2009-08-07 21:36 ` Dan Williams
2009-08-10  1:42   ` Zhu Yi [this message]
2009-08-10  6:07     ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-10  9:04   ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-08-10 16:49     ` Dan Williams

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