From: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Optional software CCMP for management frames
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:08:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901081308.23046.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090108104822.GA12480@jm.kir.nu>
Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 schrieb Jouni Malinen:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:57:45AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>
> > Jouni, what do you think about extending wpa_supplicant to allow mutliple
> > drivers to be set on the commandline (-Dnl80211,wext). The supplicant would
> > then try to register the first driver and only if that fails it takes the next
> > one (e.g. try nl80211 first and if that fails use wext). That way NM could
> > use nl80211 for drivers that support nl80211 (mainly mac80211-drivers) and
> > wext for the other drivers by passing "-Dnl80211,wext" to the supplicant.
>
> Well, that could be done inside wpa_supplicant, but more or less the
> same effect should already be doable by NM trying to first add the
> interface with nl80211 as the driver interface and if that fails, fall
> back to wext.
True. However, other consumers of wpa_supplicant (e.g. Yast in SUSE) could
also benefit from this feature if implemented inside the supplicant. But as
I wrote, this was just a quick thought on how to make the transition from
wext to nl80211 smoother.
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 11:23 [PATCH 00/14] mac80211: IEEE 802.11w (management frame protection) Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 01/14] mac80211: 802.11w - STA flag for MFP Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 02/14] mac80211: 802.11w - CCMP for management frames Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 03/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 04/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Use " Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 05/14] mac80211: 802.11w - WEXT parameter for setting mgmt cipher Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 06/14] mac80211: 802.11w - WEXT configuration for IGTK Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 07/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Configuration of MFP disabled/optional/required Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 08/14] mac80211: 802.11w - SA Query processing Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 09/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Do not force Action frames to disable encryption Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 10/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Drop unprotected robust management frames if MFP is used Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 11/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Implement Association Comeback processing Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Optional software CCMP for management frames Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 12:08 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 12:24 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 12:47 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 14:09 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 15:09 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 15:30 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 15:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 16:33 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 16:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-08 9:57 ` Helmut Schaa
2009-01-08 10:48 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-08 12:08 ` Helmut Schaa [this message]
2009-01-08 12:18 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-08 12:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-08 12:29 ` Helmut Schaa
[not found] ` <226823.3656.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
2009-01-08 12:44 ` [patch] vif_conf.patch failed to patch git wireless-testing (07-01-2009) Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 13/14] ath9k: Fix set_key error codes Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:24 ` [PATCH 14/14] ath9k: Setup MFP options for CCMP Jouni Malinen
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