Re: airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3)

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 18:43:59 EST


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:32:35PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> While we are on the subject : a few months ago, Javier added
> support for MIC to the airo driver. It's basically crypto based on
> AES. You refused to include that part in the kernel because crypto was
> not accepted in the kernel.
> Fast forward : today we have crypto in the 2.5.X kernel. Does
> this mean that you would have no objection accepting a patch from
> Javier including the crypto part ?

Sounds like it would be better to get it using the in-kernel crypto
stuff rather than reimplementing its own routines. Same for the HostAP
driver.
 
                Dave
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