2010/3/1 Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx>: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:12:48AM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: >> That sounds interresting, is there any chance that that functionality >> can be added to the 0.6.x branch too? (I'm maintaining hostapd in >> Gentoo, but cannot stabilize a 0.7.x build, due to it being a >> development branch) > > While it might be relatively simple to port the bridge setup code into > 0.6.x, I'm not that keen on doing it for this particular reason. I'm > recommending 0.7.x branch for all AP functionality with nl80211-based > driver interface and as such, do not really want to promote use of 0.6.x > versions for this. > > I started working on porting the driver_nl80211.c changes into the 0.6.x > branch, but that turned up to take way too much effort compared to what > the potential benefit would be. As such, I do not plan on continuing on > this direction and you should be prepared to quite a bit of additional > work on porting non-trivial fixes from hostapd 0.7.x yourself if you > plan on using hostapd 0.6.x in Gentoo with mac80211/nl80211-based > drivers. > > -- > Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Okay, so the best thing to do, is to advise people to reverse the patch if the need 0.6.x, or use 0.7.x - right? If so, thats fine with me :-) Best regards, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen -- 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
