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Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for change in STA handling in mac80211

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Hin-Tak Leung
<htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- On Thu, 11/12/08, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't know the verdict yet - but I think we need
>> to either revert Johannes's earlier patch, or have this
>> change from Larry incoporated, ASAP.
>> >
>> > Hin-Tak
>>
>> No, the best solution is to incorporate Johannes patch of
>> today. Now that I
>> understand what happened, my patch just wallpapers over his
>> mistake.
>>
>> To explain how that happened, he used
>> NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION (2) when he meant
>> BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)(4). My "fix" works
>> because BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
>> == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION.
>
> okay, I like my wlan* device not to disappear. One way or the other, this needs fixing ASAP. It was very weird to put the latest wireless-testing on and wlanX is nowhere to be found :-). I'll dig through the archive for the patch. (still not subscribe to linux-wireless - maybe I should when I figure out gmail's filtering system).
>
> Hin-Tak

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