On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:33 +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> >>> > Or wait ... are you using compat-wireless? >>> >>> Yes, I am. I mentioned this and did wonder if the _backport/ part >>> in /sys/class is important. >> >> Sorry, didn't see. >> >> Anyway, that's pretty clearly the reason -- Luis added NETDEV_PRE_UP to >> some compat*.h but obviously the kernel won't ever call that notifier, >> so cfg80211 doesn't get a chance to reject the IFUP. No idea how to >> handle that -- it'll be working fine in a regular tree. >> >> Luis, the only way to handle that would be to manually call the PRE_UP >> notifier from mac80211's subif_open() and if that returns an error >> (warning: the calling convention is weird) return the error... that's >> weird but would work. > > Neat, thanks. Not sure if I'll get to this this anytime soon, but if > someone is interested in it please give it a shot and send a patch. > That would be nice. What if we *also* just do that from mac80211 as well upstream? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
