netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] linux-wireless: Added psk in struct cfg80211_connect_params needed for offloading 4way handshake to driver

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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:54:17 +0100
From:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"Gautam (Gautam Kumar) Shukla" <gautams@...adcom.com>
CC:	"linville@...driver.com" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jithu Jance <jithu@...adcom.com>,
	Sreenath S <sreenats@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] linux-wireless: Added psk in struct cfg80211_connect_params
 needed for offloading 4way handshake to driver

On 11-11-14 10:29, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 05:56 +0000, Gautam (Gautam Kumar) Shukla wrote:
>> For offloading 4 way handshake to driver, currently we don't have any
>> member  of struct cfg80211_connect_params to pass PSK from supplicant
>> to driver. I have added psk for the same and added rest of the code
>> needed in nl80211.h and nl80211.c to parse and make it available to
>> driver.
>> From supplicant, we already have psk member field in assoc_params to
>> use .
>>
>> Tested on x86 linux.
> 
> Your commit message needs serious work.
> 
> Also, there's a competing approach from QCA that's far more suited.

I probably was not paying attention to it, but would you have a
reference to this.

> In either case though, I'm going to ask which driver is going to use
> this and when it's going to land in mainline.

I had the same question ;-)

> johannes
> 
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