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Re: [PATCH 0/4] wl1251 IBSS fixes

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On Saturday 31 May 2014 15:15:20 Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Pali Rohár 
<pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 May 2014 14:28:45 Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> On Friday 09 May 2014 22:03:00 Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> > 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 outdated, so acks / tested-bys are unlikely..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.
> >> 
> >> Looks like everything working fine except power save mode.
> >> In dmesg I see only these message:
> >> 
> >> wl1251: ERROR Power save entry failed, giving up
> >> 
> >> If you are OK with fact that I tested your patches with
> >> older kernel (not last upstream), you can add my
> >> Tested-by.
> > 
> > Grazvydas: PING
> 
> Sure I'm ok, patches seem to be already queued with your
> Tested-bys:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireles
> s-next.git/log/?h=e5b02f649bb

OK.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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