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From: drago01 <drago01-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: clean up frame receive handling
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:39:59 +0100
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On Dec 12, 2007 7:24 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> [comments welcome. I really need a refresher on what the frame formats
> mean but I think I did the right thing with skb->protocol here, I also
> think we had a bug with rfc2042 header frames bigger than 15xx bytes and
> eth_type_trans()]
>
> This cleans up the frame receive handling. After this patch
>  * EAPOL frames addressed to us or the EAPOL group address are
>    always accepted regardless of whether they are encrypted or not

why? userspace (wap_supplicant) tryes to control this depending on the
network settings.
(I don't really know why thought)
maybe it should be handled like drop_unencrypted with default to accept all?