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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] p54: connect to 11w protected networks
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:49:29 -0500
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On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 17:59 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Monday 10 September 2012 14:28:00 Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:19 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > >> Previously, it was not possible to connect
> > >> to networks which requires 11w to be supported
> > >> by the stations.
> > >
> > > If at all possible if we can do this without module parameters, that
> > > would be great.  Otherwise how is userspace supposed to connect to a
> > > W-capable network without twiddling driver-specific module options,
> > > something we've tried really hard to not do?  Module options really
> > > aren't any different than private ioctls or IWPRIV commands...
> > 
> > Sure, and that's how it works with properly supported hardware. But p54
> > is so old that the user will need to buy newer hardware if he really
> > needs 11w support out-of-box. IMHO there's no point of making a huge
> > effort to add 11w support to older hardware, there are more important
> > things to fix in Linux wireless stack than that.
> 
> Dan's concern has been addressed by v4 of this patch
> (which depends on johannes' "add mgmt key flags" patch).
> p54 should now provide basic support for 11w protected
> networks w/o messing with any module parameters.

Great, thanks!

Dan