Re: [PATCH 1/2] b43: Fix connection problem with WPA3

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:

> Since the driver was first introduced into the kernel, it has only
> handled the ciphers associated with WEP, WPA, and WPA2. It fails with
> WPA3 even though mac80211 can handle those additional ciphers in software,
> b43 did not report that it could handle them. By setting MFP_CAPABLE using
> ieee80211_set_hw(), the problem is fixed.
>
> With this change, b43 will handle the ciohers it knows in hardare,

I'll change this to:

"ciphers it knows in hardware"

> and let mac80211 handle the others in software. It is not necessary to
> use the module parameter NOHWCRYPT to turn hardware encryption off.
> Although this change essentially eliminates that module parameter,
> I am choosing to keep it for cases where the hardware is broken,
> and software encryption is required for all ciphers.
>
> This patch fixes a prooblem that has been in the driver since it was first
> merged with commit e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for
> modern BCM43xx devices").
>
> Fixes e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices")

I consider this as a new feature, not a bugfix. So I'll remove the Fixes
line and the paragraph above it. Ok?

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