On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:46 +0200, Stefanik Gábor wrote: > Maybe we had more people working on/debugging AP mode if we didn't > intentionally disable the existing limited support for it... Possibly > print a big warning that "THIS IS NOT STANDARDS_COMPLIANT YET!", but > outright disabling it and requiring an external patch is IMHO stupid. > Perhaps a Kconfig option with EXPERIMENTAL and default=n would be > better. I agree. More people would be looking into AP support for individual drivers if mac80211 didn't need a patch. Alone the requirement for hostapd would indicate that the AP mode is not ready for general consumption. Going further can actually discourage some potential contributors. I suspect somebody in the ath5k camp would look at the AP mode if mac80211 wasn't forbidding it unconditionally. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
