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* [PATCH 0/3] RFC: Add support for passing PMK to WEXT
@ 2008-04-25  4:51 Masakazu Mokuno
  2008-04-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] RFC: PS3: gelic: Use the new PMK interface in the gelic driver Masakazu Mokuno
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From: Masakazu Mokuno @ 2008-04-25  4:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-wireless

	Hi,

I'd like to add support for passing PMK and capability flags to WEXT for
the drivers which want to do 4-way handshake in the driver/firmware.

Prior to 2.6.25, none of the mainlined wireless drivers had been designed
to do 4-way handshakes in the driver/firmware, thus WEXT does not define
the way to do that. 

The PS3 wireless device is such kind of device.  The current gelic
driver included in 2.6.25 uses private WEXT ioctls to get the PSK
because of the lack of a standard way in WEXT.

With this patch we would be able to:

  - define the standard way to pass the PMK to the driver
  - let user space programs figure out whether the driver will do 4-way
    handshakes
  - eliminate the use of private ioctls from the gelic driver

#1	Add support for passing PMK and capability flags to WEXT
#2	Use the new PMK interface in the gelic driver
#3	Deprecate the private ioctls in the gelic driver


#1 adds the flags to WEXT, #2 and #3 let the gelic driver conform.

Please review!

-- 
Masakazu Mokuno


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2008-04-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] RFC: WEXT: Add support for passing PMK and capability flags to WEXT Masakazu Mokuno
2008-04-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: PS3: gelic: Deprecate the private ioctls in the gelic driver Masakazu Mokuno
2008-04-26 16:13 ` [PATCH 0/3] RFC: Add support for passing PMK to WEXT Johannes Berg
2008-04-27  6:35   ` Jouni Malinen
2008-04-28  4:07     ` Dan Williams
2008-05-07 10:06       ` Masakazu Mokuno

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