Re: [PATCH 08/20] mac80211: remove unused ioctls (3)

[Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 21:09 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
> > Create IBSS is a somewhat commonly used configuration and so is mixed
> > cell configuration in Cisco-world (and the only point for the
> > privacy_mismatch check that is left broken after this patch).
> 
> I was under the impression that the auth mechanism setting would still
> do that. What is "mixed cell configuration" anyway?

As far as I know, it is an option that allows the client to associate
with a network that has a mismatch in the privacy setting (with its own
configuration). This would only happen in case the same SSID/beacon
frame were to be used to advertise multiple networks with conflicting
security policies (open and encryption), i.e., a "mixed cell".

> > No, but iwpriv.. See the pattern here.. ;-)
> 
> Oh, I can see that, but none of these things are documented nor do any
> existing tools use them. I don't contend the fact that these may indeed
> be useful, but I think none of them should be private ioctls. If you
> have a use case for all of these I'd be happy to see an explanation so
> we can add this with proper documentation elsewhere. Without
> documentation, they are a rather useless special configurations nobody
> will ever touch.

iwpriv is an existing tool that uses these. I'm perfectly fine with
doing this any other way, so no problems there, and I can also accept
that there is unfortunate lack of documentation for many of the
parameters.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA