From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:51897 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753637AbXC1K0J (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:26:09 -0400 Subject: Re: WPA/RSN information in cfg80211? From: Johannes Berg To: Mark Powell Cc: linux-wireless , Jouni Malinen In-Reply-To: <460A3DC6.8030604@csr.com> References: <1175034846.5151.20.camel@johannes.berg> <460A3665.5090906@csr.com> <1175075263.5151.31.camel@johannes.berg> <460A3DC6.8030604@csr.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XdJhJ7410Q/1Rc9CmCoD" Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:24:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1175077492.5151.46.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-XdJhJ7410Q/1Rc9CmCoD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:04 +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > > Putting the IE there has the advantage that you can easily play with ne= w > > things for cards that use the IE by sticking a few more IEs into the > > attribute.=20 > I agree. Forming the MLME requests, including the IE, is really the role > of the userland app (the SME in IEEE802.11 speak). Right. > > But it has the disadvantage that cards behave differently if > > you give them contradictory settings. Maybe we need a way to ask a card > > which one it wants. > Is that just a case of garbage-in-garbage-out? Yes, but I can just see it coming that the developer has a fullmac card that accepts having no IE and then some users with a halfmac card that needs the IE present is going to crap out. It'd be nice if we could avoid that, but I think we probably can't without much overhead that we don't want. johannes --=-XdJhJ7410Q/1Rc9CmCoD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGCkJ0/ETPhpq3jKURAuJJAJ4s8Ot7X/i0Ak1ErDLj9GtwBDAUdACbBbaw mNOAmV6sr0KV8pgBxTztRW8= =vzQd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XdJhJ7410Q/1Rc9CmCoD--