On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:21:31PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > 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. I dunno...that last thing I want is to let this go in and then be locked-in to the current API no-matter-what like we now are with WEXT. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
