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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Add module parameter to disable HW crypto
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:06:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808061806.40006.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218036145.23048.8.camel@johannes.berg>

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:27 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > Add a module parameter to rt61 and rt73 to disable
> > HW crypto. The option should only be checked when
> > determining if the SUPPORT_HW_CRYPTO flag should
> > be set or not.
> 
> I wonder if instead mac80211 should have an option for this. It'd be
> trivial to simply not tell the hardware about the keys.

Then it probably needs to be a per physical interface configuration option,
which can only be toggled when the interface is down. Because I don't think
you want the option to be global for all available physical interfaces.

Ivo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06 15:27 [PATCH] rt2x00: Add module parameter to disable HW crypto Ivo van Doorn
2008-08-06 15:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-06 16:06   ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2008-08-06 15:42     ` Johannes Berg

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