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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow mode change if IBSS is not allowed

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On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 16:39 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Changing mode on an interface is not allowed if IBSS is disabled for the
> current channel.  That restriction should only apply when switching to
> the ad-hoc mode, as it was prior to db17d8c4.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>

Thanks Pavel.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  net/mac80211/iface.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> index 5abbc3f..b907482 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> @@ -699,7 +699,8 @@ int ieee80211_if_change_type(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	/* Setting ad-hoc mode on non-IBSS channel is not supported. */
> -	if (sdata->local->oper_channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS)
> +	if (sdata->local->oper_channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS &&
> +	    type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  
>  	/*
> --
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