2012/9/11 Christian Lamparter <chunk...@googlemail.com>:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2012 18:36:27 Nick Kossifidis wrote:
>> 2012/9/11 Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchuny...@gmail.com>:
>> >> To be more clear: you can tell the hw to *only* disable decryption and
>> >> keep doing encryption.
>> >
>> > But the question here is that during Rx, need to do SW decryption for
>> > management frame and then HW decryption for unicast data frame for all
>> > the frame coming from the same STA. I still not so sure how to do
>> > that.
>> >
>> > Jouni said that the workaround is to re-encrypt(incorrectly) received
>> > robust unicast management frames if hwaccel for CCMP was configured
>> > for the transmitting STA (this is to undo the incorrect decryption
>> > done by the hardware) and then pass the encrypted frame to mac80211
>> > for software decryption.
>> >
>>
>> How about disabling acks on hw completely and handle them on sw ?
>> This might keep the engine running ok for unicast frames.
>>
>> #define AR5K_DIAG_SW_DIS_ACK          0x00000002      /* Disable ACKs */
>> #define AR5K_DIAG_SW_DIS_CTS          0x00000004      /* Disable CTSs */
>
> No, CTS and ACKs are control frames and not management frames.

ACK :-)




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