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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>, Sid Hayn <sidhayn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19] mt76x0: mark 802.11w as supported
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:17:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181220131726.GA7840@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181220123055.GC17138@kroah.com>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 01:30:55PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:47:07PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > commit 0ae976a11b4fb5704b597e103b5189237641c1a1 upstream.
> > 
> > This is one line hw feature backport from 0ae976a11b4f ("mt76x0: init
> > hw capabilities"), which add also other different features, however
> > those are not supported in 4.19.
> > 
> > 802.11w is supported by mac80211 and mt76x0u driver in 4.19 correctly
> > fall-back to software encryption when 802.11w ciphers are used.
> > 
> > Without the patch we fail to associate with WPA3 APs, so this is
> > considered as fix.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
> > [remove marking non-working features on 4.19, make topic correspond the change]
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x0/init.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> What bug is this fixing?  This never worked before, so this feels like
> it is adding a new feature.

It's never worked before, true. It fixes problem with associating
with WPA3 Access Points. Perhaps Sid (already in CC) who requested
this, could justify it better.

Thanks
Stanislaw

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-20 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-20 11:47 [PATCH 4.19] mt76x0: mark 802.11w as supported Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-12-20 12:30 ` Greg KH
2018-12-20 13:17   ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2018-12-20 14:30   ` Sid Hayn

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