[PATCH] Revert "wpa_supplicant: Send EAPOL frames over nl80211 where available"

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 11:38:27 PDT 2023


On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 3:20 PM Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Almost all searches for that message point to network manager:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Secrets_were_required,_but_not_provided

Again, not relevant to my use case.

Please accept the commit from you and Brendan caused a regression on
my ath10k system.

It is 100% reproducible.

> > "I have tested this on DMG (11ad/ay) devices with an out-of-tree Linux
> >  driver that does not use mac80211."
> Yes, it's tested using a cfg80211-based FullMAC driver.
> > So it looks like this commit tried to fix an out-of-tree Linux driver,
> > but broke ath10k.
> mac80211 sets this flag by default and I just tested with
> mac80211_hwsim and was successfully
> able to establish the secure connection (WPA2 and WPA3).

Good, but how do we go about solving the regression?



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