linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] wifi: nl80211/wilc1000: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE to big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:50:39 +0100
From: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@...tlin.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@...rochip.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Igor Mitsyanko <imitsyanko@...ntenna.com>,
 Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@...il.com>, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
 Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] wifi: nl80211/wilc1000: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE to
 big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH

On 2/15/24 15:13, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
> This small series is the follow-up to discussions started around a sparse
> warning in wilc1000 driver ([1]) and implements the solution suggested by
> Johannes. It moves a historically needed conversion to be32 in nl80211 (in
> NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH, specifically on NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES property
> _only_ when it is set to WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE) The user scenario affected by
> this update is a connect process on a WPA3-protected access point with
> authentication offloaded to user-space. Two drivers are affected by the
> update: wilc1000 and qtnfmac. wilc1000 case is handled by a small
> companion patch which also fixes the sparse warning.

Adding Claudio Beznea (co-maintainer for WILC), who got lost when I prepared the
series, sorry.

Also, my mail provider returns error 550 (No Such User Here) for quantenna
driver maintainer (<imitsyanko@...ntenna.com>, taken from MAINTAINERS). I've
seen no recent activity from him on the ML, is he still around ?

-- 
Alexis Lothoré, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com