Return-path: Received: from 128-177-27-249.ip.openhosting.com ([128.177.27.249]:40502 "EHLO jmalinen.user.openhosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754485AbZAHKsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 05:48:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:48:22 +0200 From: Jouni Malinen To: Helmut Schaa Cc: Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen , Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Optional software CCMP for management frames Message-ID: <20090108104822.GA12480@jm.kir.nu> (sfid-20090108_114850_326614_40AD125F) References: <20090107112346.369581673@atheros.com> <1231340944.3545.38.camel@johannes> <20090107153052.GA24894@jm.kir.nu> <200901081057.46495.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200901081057.46495.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:57:45AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > Jouni, what do you think about extending wpa_supplicant to allow mutliple > drivers to be set on the commandline (-Dnl80211,wext). The supplicant would > then try to register the first driver and only if that fails it takes the next > one (e.g. try nl80211 first and if that fails use wext). That way NM could > use nl80211 for drivers that support nl80211 (mainly mac80211-drivers) and > wext for the other drivers by passing "-Dnl80211,wext" to the supplicant. Well, that could be done inside wpa_supplicant, but more or less the same effect should already be doable by NM trying to first add the interface with nl80211 as the driver interface and if that fails, fall back to wext. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA