On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:01:26 Pavel Roskin wrote: > 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. I'd also like to get something like the following merged: Subject: mac80211: allow AP and VLAN modes This patch is based on a patch by Johannes Berg. It allows switching interfaces into AP/VLAN modes using cfg80211 (nl80211). Don't allow doing it with wext because then people will just attempt to do it manually (without hostapd) and complain that it doesn't work. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-06-10 13:58:23.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-06-26 18:12:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ nl80211_type_to_mac80211_type(enum nl802 case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: return IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MESH_POINT; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_AP + case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP: + return IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_AP; + case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN: + return IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_VLAN; +#endif /* AP */ case NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS: return IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_WDS; default: Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/Kconfig =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/Kconfig 2008-06-10 13:58:23.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/Kconfig 2008-06-26 18:19:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -92,6 +92,25 @@ config MAC80211_LEDS This option enables a few LED triggers for different packet receive/transmit events. +config MAC80211_AP + bool "AccessPoint and VLAN modes (read help text!)" + depends on MAC80211 && EXPERIMENTAL + ---help--- + ===> BIG FAT WARNING <=== + This is not IEEE 802.11 compliant, yet! + You might disturb operation of other accesspoints and + stations in your neighbourhood. Do only enable this, if + you want to help out fixing this to make this warning disappear. + If you enable this, expect that your neighbour will ring your + door and yell at you for disturbing his network. + + This option enables AP/VLAN support in mac80211. + Note that the latest GIT snapshot of the userspace hostapd + daemon is required for this. It will not work without + hostapd or with an old version of hostapd without nl80211 support. + + Say N. + config MAC80211_DEBUGFS bool "Export mac80211 internals in DebugFS" depends on MAC80211 && DEBUG_FS -- Greetings Michael. -- 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
