Return-path: Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.8]:46784 "EHLO mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751964AbXHUDOe (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:14:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:13:13 -0700 From: Jouni Malinen To: Johannes Berg Cc: John Linville , Jiri Benc , Michael Wu , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/20] mac80211: remove unused ioctls (3) Message-ID: <20070821031313.GN1415@jm.kir.nu> References: <20070815144920.135826000@sipsolutions.net> <20070815145045.151670000@sipsolutions.net> <20070818040943.GH1415@jm.kir.nu> <1187601341.6090.50.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1187601341.6090.50.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 21:09 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > > Create IBSS is a somewhat commonly used configuration and so is mixed > > cell configuration in Cisco-world (and the only point for the > > privacy_mismatch check that is left broken after this patch). > > I was under the impression that the auth mechanism setting would still > do that. What is "mixed cell configuration" anyway? As far as I know, it is an option that allows the client to associate with a network that has a mismatch in the privacy setting (with its own configuration). This would only happen in case the same SSID/beacon frame were to be used to advertise multiple networks with conflicting security policies (open and encryption), i.e., a "mixed cell". > > No, but iwpriv.. See the pattern here.. ;-) > > Oh, I can see that, but none of these things are documented nor do any > existing tools use them. I don't contend the fact that these may indeed > be useful, but I think none of them should be private ioctls. If you > have a use case for all of these I'd be happy to see an explanation so > we can add this with proper documentation elsewhere. Without > documentation, they are a rather useless special configurations nobody > will ever touch. iwpriv is an existing tool that uses these. I'm perfectly fine with doing this any other way, so no problems there, and I can also accept that there is unfortunate lack of documentation for many of the parameters. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA