From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Volker Braun <volker.braun@physik.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] mac80211: dynamic wep
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:28:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187350107.23489.167.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187308221.23489.91.camel@johannes.berg>
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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 01:50 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 00:12 -0400, Volker Braun wrote:
> > 1) Instead of hacking around ieee80211_privacy_mismatch, remove it
> > completely. It serves no useful purpose.
>
> The purpose seems to be to avoid associating to BSSes that have privacy
> enabled when we don't have any keys nor a tool told us that it's ok.
> This again raises the question of why wpa_supplicant doesn't set the
> IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT_802_1X flag that should get you around the mismatch
> check.
In any case, I don't mind removing it, but if you do it please also
remove the stuff related to it from ioctl.c and the key_mgmt variable.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-17 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-15 4:12 [PATCHv3] mac80211: dynamic wep Volker Braun
2007-08-15 6:55 ` Michael Wu
2007-08-15 15:24 ` Volker Braun
2007-08-16 4:58 ` Michael Wu
2007-08-16 18:26 ` Volker Braun
2007-08-17 10:21 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-16 23:50 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-17 11:28 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-08-17 14:16 ` Volker Braun
2007-08-17 15:09 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-21 3:05 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-08-21 4:35 ` Volker Braun
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2007-09-05 14:05 dragoran
2007-09-05 14:11 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-05 16:48 ` dragoran
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