Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: allow beacon protection keys to be installed in hardware

Jeff Johnson
2025-06-04T20:40:05Z

On 6/4/2025 1:59 AM, Karthikeyan Kathirvel wrote:
> On 5/9/2025 9:37 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> Will you be spinning a v2? Note the dependent mac80211 change has merged.
> Yes Jeff, we've identified and confirmed a firmware bug that gets
> triggered during IGTK key installation, which leads to corruption of the
> GTK keys in firmware. To work around this, I’ll send a new version where
> IGTK uses software crypto. Once the firmware bug is resolved upstream,
> we can re-enable hardware offload for IGTK.

Note that then means firmware must advertise that the correct support is
present so that the host knows whether or not it can enable the offload.

/jeff