On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:50 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > With the addition of basic rate set and TX queue parameter > configuration and confirmation that power save buffering is > working again, mac80211 is now in state that allows AP mode to be > used without major problems. Consequently, it is time to allow this > mode to be enabled without having to patch the kernel. > > AP mode requires hostapd for management frame processing and as such, > configuring this mode is only allowed through cfg80211 (not with > iwconfig and WEXT). Good stuff. Finally :) Now we just need all drivers to support it too ;) > Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c > =================================================================== > --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-10-28 10:32:35.000000000 +0200 > +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-10-28 10:32:40.000000000 +0200 > @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ > #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH > case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: > #endif > + case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP: > + case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN: > case NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS: > return true; > default: >
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