Re: WPA/RSN information in cfg80211?

[Mark Powell <Mark.Powell@csr.com>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:33 +0100, Mark Powell wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> Do I read that as "I don't care if we get the IE"?
>   
We can build it into the driver if we have to :)
> Putting the IE there has the advantage that you can easily play with new
> things for cards that use the IE by sticking a few more IEs into the
> attribute. 
I agree. Forming the MLME requests, including the IE, is really the role
of the userland app (the SME in IEEE802.11 speak).
> But it has the disadvantage that cards behave differently if
> you give them contradictory settings. Maybe we need a way to ask a card
> which one it wants.
>   
Is that just a case of garbage-in-garbage-out?

Mark



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