Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f26.google.com ([209.85.220.26]:60572 "EHLO mail-fx0-f26.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750917AbZAHM3l (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 07:29:41 -0500 Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so1626870fxm.13 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:29:39 -0800 (PST) To: Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Optional software CCMP for management frames Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:29:16 +0100 Cc: Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen , Dan Williams References: <20090107112346.369581673@atheros.com> <200901081308.23046.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> <20090108121839.GA20687@jm.kir.nu> In-Reply-To: <20090108121839.GA20687@jm.kir.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200901081329.16851.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> (sfid-20090108_132946_350185_7DA83C77) From: Helmut Schaa Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 schrieb Jouni Malinen: > However, at this point I would not yet > recommend trying to use driver_nl80211 as the first option. Once we get > nl80211 bit more complete and at least make sure it does not break > something, adding the automatic driver selection would sound more > reasonable. Right. Sounds feasible. > Though, this would also mean that we depend on drivers never > implementing partial nl80211 support that could trigger wpa_supplicant > into believing that they support nl80211 when they would actually work > much better with wext. Good point. Helmut