On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:01 -0400, 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. Oh and I never answered to this. I disagree. Requiring people to patch their kernel for AP mode support is a good way to discourage "contributors" who don't even know how to compile a kernel, trust me, I've seen a fair share of private mails from those (which I ignore: do not mail me in private about AP support). Hence, I don't want to do it for exactly this reason: a bunch of dumb users will enable it either way, and actually _working_ on AP mode _will_ require kernel patches, so this isn't one that matters. johannes
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