Re: [PATCH 0/2] wifi: nl80211/wilc1000: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE to big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH

From: Alexis Lothoré
Date: Thu Feb 15 2024 - 10:51:23 EST


On 2/15/24 15:13, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
> This small series is the follow-up to discussions started around a sparse
> warning in wilc1000 driver ([1]) and implements the solution suggested by
> Johannes. It moves a historically needed conversion to be32 in nl80211 (in
> NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH, specifically on NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES property
> _only_ when it is set to WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE) The user scenario affected by
> this update is a connect process on a WPA3-protected access point with
> authentication offloaded to user-space. Two drivers are affected by the
> update: wilc1000 and qtnfmac. wilc1000 case is handled by a small
> companion patch which also fixes the sparse warning.

Adding Claudio Beznea (co-maintainer for WILC), who got lost when I prepared the
series, sorry.

Also, my mail provider returns error 550 (No Such User Here) for quantenna
driver maintainer (<imitsyanko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, taken from MAINTAINERS). I've
seen no recent activity from him on the ML, is he still around ?

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