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Re: [PATCH 0/4] wl1251 IBSS fixes

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On Friday 09 May 2014 02:21:21 Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas 
<notasas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > IBSS mode is currently advertised by wl1251 driver but is
> > totally broken. First there is a disconnect hack for
> > monitor mode that was recently merged, it abuses mac80211
> > and causes corruption in IBSS mode, so I think should be
> > reverted. Then there are several cases of station-only
> > mac80211 functions called carelessly, what is also fixed.
> 
> Ping.
> This driver is orphan and hardware carrying it is outdated, so
> acks / tested-bys are unlikely..

Now I'm testing these patches on wireless-testing git tree from 
year 2010 compiled against patched maemo 2.6.28 kernel.

Reason for using these historical wireless-testing version is 
that this version can be compiled against kernel which working 
with default Maemo system in Nokia N900.

It looks like your patches fixed some kernel oops when iwconfig 
changing mode to ad-hoc.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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