From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cluster-c.mailcontrol.com ([168.143.177.190]:46782 "EHLO cluster-c.mailcontrol.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752937AbXC1K1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:27:43 -0400 Received: from rly21c.srv.mailcontrol.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rly21c.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id l2S9hVs6002600 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:43:31 +0100 Received: from submission.mailcontrol.com (submission.mailcontrol.com [86.111.216.190]) by rly21c.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) id l2S9geiN000791 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:42:40 +0100 Message-ID: <460A3665.5090906@csr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:33:25 +0100 From: Mark Powell MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: linux-wireless , Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: WPA/RSN information in cfg80211? References: <1175034846.5151.20.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1175034846.5151.20.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg wrote: > Looking through wpa_supplicant and then through the kernel I notice that > we currently in the kernel special-case some things in SIOCSIWAUTH, for > example IW_AUTH_WPA_VERSION is ignored since we rely on the IE that wpa > supplicant gave us. > FWIW we currently use the value of IW_AUTH_WPA_VERSION to generate the correct cipher suite selector when forming the set-key request for our hard MAC device. We use other IW_AUTH settings too. > ... > > I'm inclined to just require userspace to put both the IE and the > individual settings into the relevant nl80211 messages, but then we > might just as well piece the IE together from those settings, no? > We certainly need the individual settings. It is nice that wpa_supplicant generates the IE - it saved me writing the code - but that's just being lazy. We still have to modify the IE anyway to add WMM stuff. Mark -- Mark Powell mailto:Mark.Powell@csr.com Group Leader, Host Drivers Tel: +44 (0)1223 692000 CSR, Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB24 0WZ, UK To access the latest news from CSR copy this link into a web browser: http://www.csr.com/email_sig.php To get further information regarding CSR, please visit our Investor Relations page at http://ir.csr.com/csr/about/overview