From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: WPA/RSN information in cfg80211?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:44:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329154431.GA3906@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175166739.8807.46.camel@johannes.berg>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:12:19PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:00 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > As long as the information is available for the driver at the time of
> > association request, it does not really matter how that information got
> > there..
>
> I'd have thought you would rather see the IE included to be able to
> experiment with new things easier ;)
Looks like there is some misunderstanding here.. What I meant with "the
information" was both the IE and the individual parameters. I do indeed
want to get both of these available to the drivers.
> I really can't decide which way to use. Piecing together the IE in the
> kernel and then just passing it doesn't seem like much overhead, but
> doing it in userspace gives us more freedom for experiments...
I believe both should be provided from user space and kernel has option
of using either one depending on needs.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 22:34 WPA/RSN information in cfg80211? Johannes Berg
2007-03-28 9:33 ` Mark Powell
2007-03-28 9:47 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-28 10:04 ` Mark Powell
2007-03-28 10:24 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-28 14:47 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-28 19:00 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-03-29 11:12 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-29 15:44 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
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