Driver uses custom Michael MIC implementation. There is already an
implementation within the kernel (net/mac80211). There is one other
driver already using the kernel implementation
(drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco). The switch to the kernel
implementation is, however, non-trivial. orinoco provides custom
wrappers that may also need to be implemented in ks7010 and also
orinoco uses crypto_shash_*() kernel cryptography functions.

Some knowledge of cryptography and wireless networking is required.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <m...@tobin.cc>
---
 drivers/staging/ks7010/TODO | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/TODO b/drivers/staging/ks7010/TODO
index 87a6dac..c8a42c2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/TODO
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Now the TODOs:
 - fix the 'card removal' event when card is inserted when booting
 - check what other upstream wireless mechanisms can be used instead of the
   custom ones here
+- replace custom MichaelMIC implementation with kernel
+  implementation net/mac80211/michael.* (should we be using crypto_shash_*()?)
 
 Please send any patches to:
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
-- 
2.7.4

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