On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:57 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> That's indeed strange: the iwl3945 (along with the other Intel cards)
> definitely doesn't support mesh but I was able to add an interface as
> well on my Ubuntu box (2.6.27-9). I think the reason is that iwlwifi
> doesn't explicitly test for interfaces it actually supports:
>
> static int iwl3945_mac_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
> struct ieee80211_if_init_conf *conf)
> {
> struct iwl_priv *priv = hw->priv;
> unsigned long flags;
>
> IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("enter: type %d\n", conf->type);
>
> if (priv->vif) {
> IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave - vif != NULL\n");
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> }
Yes, that was a long-standing bug in those drivers that was really only
fixed when we introduced the cfg80211 supported interfaces thing.
johannes
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