Re: [PATCH wireless-next 0/6] Consolidate Michael MIC code into mac80211

Christoph Hellwig
2026-04-07T06:24:31Z

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 11:15:08PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Just to clarify, mac80211 already contains the michael_mic() function.
> And every driver that needs Michael MIC already depends on mac80211
> except for ipw2x00. So bloat-wise I assumed it's probably better to
> make that one driver depend on mac80211, rather than make every driver
> pull in the Michael MIC code (by moving it from mac80211 to cfg80211).
> But if you prefer that the code be in cfg80211 we can do it that way.

To me the most sensible thing would be to have a separate module for
the code. If you don't want to expose it too widely for understandable
reasons, keep the module in net/wireless/.