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Re: brcmsmac and IBSS

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Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Had a bug report that a 4313 doesn't support IBSS mode, and dug around
> and found out that brcmsmac only supports STA mode.  Is that really true
> and there's no IBSS support in the smac driver?  Is that a firmware or
> driver limitation?  Seems odd that this got missed during the merge
> reviews as IBSS is pretty basic functionality that all the kernel wifi
> drivers have had for 5 or 7 years.

Are you saying that we should require Ad-Hoc mode from all drivers? I
hope not, I consider it as a niche feature. It also has it's own
problems, power save and encryption at least come to my mind.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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