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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com,
	mickflemm@gmail.com, mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com,
	ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k: add support of HW encryption in management frames
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:57:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346777845.3737.39.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209041855.13593.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (sfid-20120904_185524_891747_0BF21249)

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 18:55 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:

> > By the way, current secured mesh requires the AES CMAC to be enabled.
> > But without enabling IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE, the key cannot be added
> > since this cipher suite is considered not supported. But actually AES
> > CMAC can be done in software. Any work around on this?
> > 
> I think you can override this by supplying your own custom set
> of available ciphers. This is done by setting
> 	hw.wiphy->cipher_suites 
> 	hw.wiphy->n_cipher_suites
> during the initalization of the driver (i.e.: before
> ieee80211_register_hw(hw) is called).

Yes, that's the way you could do it, but my argument that it's pointless
still stands, so what good would it do?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-28  9:34 [PATCH] ath5k: add support of HW encryption in management frames Chun-Yeow Yeoh
2012-08-31  6:58 ` Adrian Chadd
2012-08-31 15:24   ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-03 19:24     ` Adrian Chadd
2012-09-04  1:03       ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-04  8:11 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-04  9:28   ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-04  9:31     ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-04 10:22     ` Jouni Malinen
2012-09-04 11:21       ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-04 11:25         ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-04 11:35           ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-04 16:41             ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-04 16:54               ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-05  6:52                 ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-04 16:55               ` Christian Lamparter
2012-09-04 16:57                 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-09-05  7:16               ` Jouni Malinen
2012-09-05  7:31                 ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-05  8:03                   ` Jouni Malinen
2012-09-07  3:51                     ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-09  1:47                       ` Adrian Chadd
2012-09-10 13:13                         ` Kalle Valo
2012-09-10 15:11                           ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-11  6:46                             ` Nick Kossifidis
2012-09-11  9:42                               ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-11 15:05                                 ` Nick Kossifidis
2012-09-11 15:51                                   ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-11 16:06                                     ` Nick Kossifidis
2012-09-11 16:07                                       ` Nick Kossifidis
2012-09-11 16:20                                         ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-09-11 16:30                                           ` Adrian Chadd
2012-09-11 16:36                                           ` Nick Kossifidis
2012-09-11 16:39                                             ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-11 17:31                                             ` Christian Lamparter
2012-09-11 17:48                                               ` Nick Kossifidis
2012-09-05  7:11             ` Jouni Malinen

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