From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:37535 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752779AbZGISPs (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:15:48 -0400 Subject: Re: nl80211 and wext interoperability From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43e72e890907091053s59ed356er22c59944efec9a01@mail.gmail.com> References: <1247139797.2144.27.camel@johannes.local> <43e72e890907091053s59ed356er22c59944efec9a01@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jn7cFEQAPIwqT1azlcyw" Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:15:42 +0200 Message-Id: <1247163342.22527.2.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-jn7cFEQAPIwqT1azlcyw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:53 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Johannes Berg = wrote: > > Hi! > > > > With the recent work I've done in cfg80211 for nl80211 and wext, we've > > mostly removed wext code everywhere. The only thing missing right now i= s > > the key support, and I think then we can declare cfg80211's wext compat > > layer pretty much done in terms of what mac80211 had -- orinoco will > > need the sensitivity (or AP density) thing but I'm not sure how we > > should do that since it's a value that is hardware dependent -- we'll > > need to have very good discovery code for the allowed values (unlike > > wext where you can set 0..3 and don't know what that means). Anyway, > > that wasn't the point of this email. > > > > Currently, if you use wpa_supplicant -Dwext and -Dnl80211 mixed, > > -Dnl80211 gets confused because -Dwext will set a 32-byte random SSID t= o > > "disconnect". >=20 > When do we disconnect like this? Upon initialization of wpa_supplicant > -Dwext -Dnl80211 ? When you shut down wpa_supplicant -Dwext it does that. johannes --=-jn7cFEQAPIwqT1azlcyw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKVjPLAAoJEODzc/N7+QmazZkQALIPXH+PZ3a/r3eoIjlQxomh woS+wDCJ7PkyOMo80N1AWklkwECq6pWnCuLREoOPXi6V9LrgIYG2znyYtQjQp9/E HxMhTQ5ZZyPA3FWep7GNnvn+9EsCeY6nU3DghpzciFv9Ajvcc8cmUnw97CY67K14 8fByrWu6dCySIqAYR+oZsnT4HEVCl/dmFTW+054f9ZOTrOVc2DvyCfwZlpssE7BC O2wuewdkp0ZuC4JlhSoiyUSeYWwsJjTbb0+lBtc9KW2AGK7iqhkx3zOOd+I/2Esg tp3VNdPxwZGI4JHz/jMqt/I8shDRqZAZDC3FousRozxsPU+3D4GTFS4drBfdnr8G D4NJru0RtHGFdn6d5OrCdV67lMWlESE6dfUECtiF98rwpzIxEQZHj8+1xtFmrIGE Ox7z0ByVqbn+7gyd6lRq9SHHtk4wOzFCgMK2OZLhsDF4chokv/aGGqZxByZi0u0Z DaWjp4DbocNXqpY731iKtKS8/EgriTR6tmu8541OM/1zfqfOP5cwgBunoT+Tv0os 28QOosNNsUGp3xWW0JU+lS+P1cVRynrQsoFYxQGOyMu9KOLO32NxZdQbNInu+1o1 9D6rNGq/TmSkqY7g46Lq/WivLOxBlM3FWp5xGS2FObQop/o22IVfDWwcHNECg2yn D7mIfwZL+M/9sPgSnHx4 =TZ5I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jn7cFEQAPIwqT1azlcyw--