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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:33:29 +0000
From:	"Gautam (Gautam Kumar) Shukla" <gautams@...adcom.com>
To:	Arend Van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
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

Thanks a lot  Johannes and Arend , for your comments and review .
It will really help me in my next patch submission .

Just wanted to know when QCA patch will get in main line as it was  last updated on  23 aug 2012.


Thanks and regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Arend van Spriel [mailto:arend@...adcom.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:24 PM
To: Johannes Berg; Gautam (Gautam Kumar) Shukla
Cc: linville@...driver.com; linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org; davem@...emloft.net; linux-api@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Jithu Jance; Sreenath S
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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