From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 13/13] WE-18 (aka WPA) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:40:08 -0500 Message-ID: <42376448.3040701@pobox.com> References: <200503152222.j2FMMjXu016829@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jt@hpl.hp.com To: akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <200503152222.j2FMMjXu016829@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org akpm@osdl.org wrote: > From: Jean Tourrilhes > > This is version 18 of the Wireless Extensions. The main change is that it > adds all the necessary APIs for WPA and WPA2 support. This work was > entirely done by Jouni Malinen, so let's thank him for both his hard work > and deep expertise on the subject ;-) > > This APIs obviously doesn't do much by itself and works in concert with > driver support (Jouni already sent you the HostAP changes) and userspace > (Jouni is updating wpa_supplicant). This is also orthogonal with the > ongoing work on in-kernel IEEE support (but potentially useful). > > The patch is attached, tested with 2.6.11. Normally, I would ask you to > push that directly in the kernel (99% of the patch has been on my web page > for ages and it does not affect non-WPA stuff), but Jouni convinced me that > it should bake a few weeks in wireless-2.6 Yes, this is going into wireless-2.6 later today, as requested. Jeff