Re: [RFC/RFT] cfg80211: implement wext key handling

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 09:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 20:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Move key handling wireless extension ioctls from mac80211 to cfg80211
> > so that all drivers that implement the cfg80211 operations get wext
> > compatibility.
> > 
> > Note that this drops the SIOCGIWENCODE ioctl. This means that iwconfig
> > will no longer report "Security mode:open" or "Security mode:restricted"
> > for mac80211. However, what we displayed there (the authentication algo
> > used) was actually wrong -- linux/wireless.h states that this setting is
> > meant to differentiate between "Refuse non-encoded packets" and "Accept
> > non-encoded packets". Dropping SIOCGIWENCODE also means that you can no
> > longer display the key currently in use. We believe this is a misfeature
> > in wireless extensions and unneeded; cfg80211 currently provides no way
> > to implement it.
> 
> Does this mean inability to display current WEP key index, or just the
> key that the card is supposedly using?  Seeing the index may be
> important, but the ability to pull the actual key out of the card was
> not consistently implemented across WEXT drivers.

I actually added that back, seems people want to be able to pull the key
out... I'll address your other email separately.

johannes

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