Sorry, looks like that's my mistake (I thought the patch had made it
in). Greg -- thanks for queuing the patch.
For completeness, I should note that ath5k mesh is later broken by
"ath5k: Update PCU code" and fixed again (hopefully both in by
2.6.29!) by "ath5k: Correct usage of AR5K_CFG_ADHOC"
Greg and Keir -- I also suggest Brian's patch, "mac80211: decrement
ref count to netdev after launching mesh discovery", commit
05188d21d21dc8976bff13a9ca73a230eef86d40 for stable as it should apply
there and fixes a bug that will sometimes prevent module unload if a
mesh interface was active.
Thanks,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Keir <keirlawson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> According to the 802.11s website it seems to claim that mesh
>> networking is supported for ath5k devices in kernel 2.6.28, however,
>> upon running ifconfig mesh0 up (having previously created the mesh
>> device using iw) I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported".
>
> 2.6.28 does not support mesh, at least from looking at the code,
> ath5k_add_interface has:
>
> switch (conf->type) {
> case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
> case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
> case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR:
> sc->opmode = conf->type;
> break;
> default:
> ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> goto end;
> }
>
> It needs to at least also have NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT.
>
> Mesh was enabled for 2.6.29 via b706e65b40417e03c2451bb3f92488f3736843fa,
> so if you need it in 2.6.28 you can ask Greg to pick it up for stable.
>
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