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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rt2800lib: unconditionally enable MFP
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On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 14:39 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> 
> > And once mac80211 is smart enough to make those decisions, couldn't we
> > just enable MFP by default?

For the record, I don't think we'd really want to add such a thing to
mac80211 ... easier done in the driver.

> If we will have indicator from mac80211 that MFP is configured, we can
> just return -EOPNOTSUPP from rt2x00mac_set_key() for CCMP and that will
> make MFP work without specifying nohwcrypt module parameter - software
> encryption will be used anyway.

Not sure mac80211 really knows? Hmm.

johannes