Re: [PATCH] ath5k: add support of HW encryption in management frames

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday 11 September 2012 18:36:27 Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2012/9/11 Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>:
> >> To be more clear: you can tell the hw to *only* disable decryption and
> >> keep doing encryption.
> >
> > But the question here is that during Rx, need to do SW decryption for
> > management frame and then HW decryption for unicast data frame for all
> > the frame coming from the same STA. I still not so sure how to do
> > that.
> >
> > Jouni said that the workaround is to re-encrypt(incorrectly) received
> > robust unicast management frames if hwaccel for CCMP was configured
> > for the transmitting STA (this is to undo the incorrect decryption
> > done by the hardware) and then pass the encrypted frame to mac80211
> > for software decryption.
> >
> 
> How about disabling acks on hw completely and handle them on sw ?
> This might keep the engine running ok for unicast frames.
> 
> #define AR5K_DIAG_SW_DIS_ACK		0x00000002	/* Disable ACKs */
> #define AR5K_DIAG_SW_DIS_CTS		0x00000004	/* Disable CTSs */

No, CTS and ACKs are control frames and not management frames.