Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:49710 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753239AbXHOKsm (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:48:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostapd: remove use of ieee80211_msg_wep_frame_unknown_key From: Johannes Berg To: Jouni Malinen Cc: linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <20070815033555.GI1415@jm.kir.nu> References: <1186781366.17351.8.camel@johannes.berg> <20070815033555.GI1415@jm.kir.nu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1bN5FHzLb9xQVY4HUtit" Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:45:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1187174759.3998.8.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-1bN5FHzLb9xQVY4HUtit Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:35 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > This feature was originally used to allow a station to be disassociated > if it seemed to be using incorrect keys.=20 Makes sense, this is a bit icky. > However, this was causing > interoperability issues with some client implementations and the code > was eventually commented out and this was only used to update a dot11 > MIB counters. Consequently, I did not see much point in integrating it > into hostapd and we might as well just remove the TODO item completely > from hostapd. I'm not sure whether it'd be worth it going forward anyway, with WEP deployments hopefully going down. johannes --=-1bN5FHzLb9xQVY4HUtit Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGwtln/ETPhpq3jKURAn3xAJ9J9o2VMRzbPfj79Ff7iDPT0SXhkACgj5/l ZtL9zY+u0pd07V9Qj3CTjmI= =+PUD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1bN5FHzLb9xQVY4HUtit--