From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cluster-c.mailcontrol.com ([168.143.177.190]:36244 "EHLO cluster-c.mailcontrol.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753621AbXC1KJL (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:09:11 -0400 Received: from rly06c.srv.mailcontrol.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rly06c.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id l2SA8w0j015627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:09:06 +0100 Received: from submission.mailcontrol.com (submission.mailcontrol.com [86.111.216.190]) by rly06c.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) id l2SA80u7013700 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:08:00 +0100 Message-ID: <460A3DC6.8030604@csr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:04:54 +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> <460A3665.5090906@csr.com> <1175075263.5151.31.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1175075263.5151.31.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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