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On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 17:28 +0000, Cedric Izoard wrote:

> The other option I see, would be to add a pointer to the cipher scheme 
> in struct ieee80211_key. So that in TX cipher_scheme would be 
> test/accessed using key ptr. sta->cipher_scheme would still be used for RX.
> Do you consider this as a better option ?

A whole pointer seems a bit pointless, maybe a key flag would be better?

johannes