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Re: iw station del broken?

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On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:41 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:

> That makes any scripting impossible, because it would mean a fine timing 
> between the ifup on the stations. Also I think you can't build complex 
> topologies this way.

Hmm, you're probably right.

> The alternative iw dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address> 
> next_hop <next hop MAC address> is not useful (if it is still included 
> though ^^) because it sets paths hard. Means that these paths are not 
> changed, even if they are broken.
> 
> Well, you're the maintainer. Your choice.
> 
> By the way: which was the last version with 'station del' in mesh 
> intact? Which codeparts would have to be exchanged if i'd like to use 
> this further? Only iw and nl80211?

Actually I think you only need to change a line in nl80211.c allowing
deleting; in fact deleting is OK (and thus I think we can put a patch in
adding it back) -- adding was the problem.

johannes

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