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Re: [PATCH] hostapd: use nl80211 instead of prism ioctls to create interfaces

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On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 19:38 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:37:30PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > This makes hostapd use nl80211 (via libnl) to create/remove interfaces.
> > Also lays the foundation for using nl80211 in hostapd.
> 
> Thanks, applied.

Great, thanks.

> I haven't had a chance of testing this yet, but at least I'm now back in
> state where I can build everything successfully :-). 

Good :)

> I will be traveling
> next couple of weeks at IEEE 802.11 meetings and will be very unlikely
> to test this any time soon (especially so, taken into account where the
> meetings are this time.. getting two meetings on consecutive weeks and
> on two Hawaiian islands is quite a nice combination ;-). Consequently,
> it is probably best to just get this in now and we'll fix multi-BSS
> things later, if needed.

Alright, sounds good. I don't think this breaks anything but I don't
have a mac80211 based driver that allows multiple BSSes and I don't have
all the radius stuff set up for VLANs. That said, I tested the actual
nl80211 interface by hand and it's working fine.

johannes

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