Bottom line is, I don't care.

So much I figured out by myself.


Maybe you can show me a non-mac80211 driver that behaves in the 
same way as mac80211?  In other words, a driver where you can do

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid SOMESSID
iwconfig eth1 key s:11111

and where, as in mac80211, you don't get an association (assuming 
that the AP is set up accordingly). If you can show me 5 
drivers, than I'm willing to assume that there is no regression.


So far I haven't seen one non-mac80211 driver that did not 
associate with this sequence.