ath5k: enable hardware encryption for WEP
authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:30:54 +0000 (08:30 -0400)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:17:33 +0000 (15:17 -0500)
This change re-enables hardware encryption for ath5k after setting up
mac80211 to handle the initialization vectors which happens to make it
work.  Add a module param (nohwcrypt) to optionally turn it off.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c

index 6f368e8cdf17766bf5fee052a6070157dad27c56..4bf3678529b8e2c5b0690ba4b7e226b9cabd8eae 100644 (file)
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@
 #include "debug.h"
 
 static int ath5k_calinterval = 10; /* Calibrate PHY every 10 secs (TODO: Fixme) */
+static int modparam_nohwcrypt;
+module_param_named(nohwcrypt, modparam_nohwcrypt, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nohwcrypt, "Disable hardware encryption.");
 
 
 /******************\
@@ -2975,11 +2978,12 @@ ath5k_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd,
        struct ath5k_softc *sc = hw->priv;
        int ret = 0;
 
+       if (modparam_nohwcrypt)
+               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
        switch (key->alg) {
        case ALG_WEP:
-       /* XXX: fix hardware encryption, its not working. For now
-        * allow software encryption */
-               /* break; */
+               break;
        case ALG_TKIP:
        case ALG_CCMP:
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -2999,6 +3003,7 @@ ath5k_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd,
                }
                __set_bit(key->keyidx, sc->keymap);
                key->hw_key_idx = key->keyidx;
+               key->flags |= IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_IV;
                break;
        case DISABLE_KEY:
                ath5k_hw_reset_key(sc->ah, key->keyidx);