Re: iwlagn broken in next-20090514 and next-20090515

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon May 18 2009 - 13:51:24 EST


On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 18:24 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 09:03 -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
>
> > > > Also wpa_supplicant is not happy:
> > > >
> > > > + wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /home/user/nico/ethz/wlan/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > >
> >
> > There were some changes recently to this ioctl, but I am not familiar
> > with details. Johannes will know.
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure -- this happens when clearing keys. I'll look into
> it, we probably need to accept removing a key that doesn't exist.

Why bother (if that's actually the root cause)? Maybe the supplicant
should be fixed. Other drivers return ENOENT in this case, so mac80211
certainly isn't out-of-common-spec here now.

Dan


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