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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-05-18 21:56:36 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-05-20 22:46:30 +0400
commite3da574a0ddd3e90a1e2b788b84b94bc17a75172 (patch)
treedc17ed9268594c1236e1f0b5efae2140b226b5cf /include/net
parent73606d00360cb93963aeb7bfbf8bfdbc51cfab9f (diff)
downloadlinux-e3da574a0ddd3e90a1e2b788b84b94bc17a75172.tar.xz
cfg80211: allow wext to remove keys that don't exist
Some applications using wireless extensions expect to be able to remove a key that doesn't exist. One example is wpa_supplicant which doesn't actually change behaviour when running into an error while trying to do that, but it prints an error message which users interpret as wpa_supplicant having problems. The safe thing to do is not change the behaviour of wireless extensions any more, so when the driver reports -ENOENT let the wext bridge code return success to userspace. To guarantee this, also document that drivers should return -ENOENT when the key doesn't exist. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 81a3bfa45471..389f1d20adf4 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -781,10 +781,11 @@ enum wiphy_params_flags {
* @get_key: get information about the key with the given parameters.
* @mac_addr will be %NULL when requesting information for a group
* key. All pointers given to the @callback function need not be valid
- * after it returns.
+ * after it returns. This function should return an error if it is
+ * not possible to retrieve the key, -ENOENT if it doesn't exist.
*
* @del_key: remove a key given the @mac_addr (%NULL for a group key)
- * and @key_index
+ * and @key_index, return -ENOENT if the key doesn't exist.
*
* @set_default_key: set the default key on an interface
*