Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263176AbTENXk6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 19:40:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263180AbTENXk6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 19:40:58 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:59527 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263176AbTENXk5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 19:40:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC2D6FB.5050700@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:53:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: jt@hpl.hp.com, Linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , David Gibson , Benjamin Reed , Javier Achirica , Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3) References: <20030514211222.GA10453@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3EC2BDEC.6020401@pobox.com> <20030514233235.GA11581@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030514234359.GB9898@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030514234359.GB9898@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 33 Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:32:35PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > While we are on the subject : a few months ago, Javier added > > support for MIC to the airo driver. It's basically crypto based on > > AES. You refused to include that part in the kernel because crypto was > > not accepted in the kernel. > > Fast forward : today we have crypto in the 2.5.X kernel. Does > > this mean that you would have no objection accepting a patch from > > Javier including the crypto part ? > > Sounds like it would be better to get it using the in-kernel crypto > stuff rather than reimplementing its own routines. Same for the HostAP > driver. Correct. _I_ didn't refuse the crypto, Linus did. But that was a positive step, that kicked off inclusion of crypto into the kernel. airo and HostAP do indeed need to use CryptoAPI not reimplement their own crypto, though... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/