Splitting function of wireless frame reception and decryption/encrypton

[Johannes Berg]

On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 16:02 +0100, Ovidio Ruzzier wrote:
> Thank you Johannes,
> 
> So by saying "the kernel would do it if not done in HW", do you mean
> that with some cheap chipsets ( :-) ) the kernel will take the
> responsibility of the decryption/encryption?

Yes.

> Would you know some chipsets that can be programmed to pass encrypted
> frames to the kernel and then the kernel takes care of them?
> 

Many, check ones that have "swcrypt" or similar parameters in the
kernel. The less firmware the better in this case ...

johannes