From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f193.google.com ([209.85.221.193]:33574 "EHLO mail-qy0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754687AbZGIRxs (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:53:48 -0400 Received: by qyk31 with SMTP id 31so297449qyk.33 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:53:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1247139797.2144.27.camel@johannes.local> References: <1247139797.2144.27.camel@johannes.local> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:53:27 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890907091053s59ed356er22c59944efec9a01@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: nl80211 and wext interoperability To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi! > > With the recent work I've done in cfg80211 for nl80211 and wext, we've > mostly removed wext code everywhere. The only thing missing right now is > the key support, and I think then we can declare cfg80211's wext compat > layer pretty much done in terms of what mac80211 had -- orinoco will > need the sensitivity (or AP density) thing but I'm not sure how we > should do that since it's a value that is hardware dependent -- we'll > need to have very good discovery code for the allowed values (unlike > wext where you can set 0..3 and don't know what that means). Anyway, > that wasn't the point of this email. > > Currently, if you use wpa_supplicant -Dwext and -Dnl80211 mixed, > -Dnl80211 gets confused because -Dwext will set a 32-byte random SSID to > "disconnect". When do we disconnect like this? Upon initialization of wpa_supplicant -Dwext -Dnl80211 ? Luis