Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Use WSEC to set SAE password

[Kalle Valo]

Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Using the WSEC command instead of sae_password seems to be the supported
> mechanism on newer firmware, and also how the brcmdhd driver does it.
> 
> According to user reports [1], the sae_password codepath doesn't actually
> work on machines with Cypress chips anyway, so no harm in removing it.
> 
> This makes WPA3 work with iwd, or with wpa_supplicant pending a support
> patchset [2].
> 
> [1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/11/06/wpa3/
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2023-July/041653.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <neal@xxxxxxxxx>

Arend, what do you think?

We recently talked about people testing brcmfmac patches, has anyone else
tested this?

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