Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:13 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> > You don't need wpa_supplicant, you just need an SME for that. Eventuall=
y
> > we'll implement one in iw.
>=20
> You need one simple SME for compatibility with wext in the
> kernel-space. Why not allow to access it with nl80211?

We might actually do that -- as part of the commands "connect" and
"disconnect" that do not exist yet and subsume auth and assoc into one
for hardware that doesn't support it.

johannes

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