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mac80211: IEEE 802.11w (management frame protection)

From:  Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To:  "John W. Linville" <linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject:  [PATCHv2 00/16] mac80211: IEEE 802.11w (management frame protection)
Date:  Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:31:58 +0200
Message-ID:  <20090108113158.681894124@atheros.com>
Cc:  linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

This set of patches adds support for IEEE 802.11w (management frame
protection) into mac80211. It is up-to-date with the latest IEEE 802.11w
draft (D7.0) and I do not expect any major changes to IEEE 802.11w
anymore.

This version is ready to be applied into wireless-testing. It is against
wireless-testing + CSA patch from Sujith + PS patches from Johannes.

Differences to PATCH v1:
- introduce a mechanism for drivers to indicate that they are MFP capable
  and allow user space programs to figure out whether MFP can be used
- mark ath9k MFP capable
- mark mac80211_hwsim MFP capable
- rebase against PS patches from Johannes (one of them allocated a new
  driver hw flag that would have conflicted with an allocation for MFP)

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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