Kirill Zut wrote:
---
This patch makes ad-hoc mode available on RTL8187
Signed-off-by: Kirill Zut <kirill.zut@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
looks alright, but I remember some discussion about generic ad hoc support from
the mac80211 is needed for all mac80211-based drivers to work. What's the status
of that and how's it comming along?
Hin-Tak
---
--- linux-2.6.x/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c.orig 2010-07-29 14:40:09.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.x/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c 2010-07-29 14:59:39.000000000 +0300
@@ -1032,6 +1032,7 @@ static int rtl8187_add_interface(struct
switch (vif->type) {
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
break;
default:
goto exit;
@@ -1178,7 +1179,10 @@ static void rtl8187_bss_info_changed(str
reg = 0;
if (is_valid_ether_addr(info->bssid)) {
- reg |= RTL818X_MSR_INFRA;
+ if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
+ reg |= RTL818X_MSR_ADHOC;
+ else
+ reg |= RTL818X_MSR_INFRA;
rtl818x_iowrite8(priv, &priv->map->MSR, reg);
} else {
reg |= RTL818X_MSR_NO_LINK;
@@ -1502,7 +1506,8 @@ static int __devinit rtl8187_probe(struc
* XXX: Once this driver supports anything that requires
* beacons it must implement IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ.
*/
- dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION);
+ dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
+ BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC);
if ((id->driver_info == DEVICE_RTL8187) && priv->is_rtl8187b)
printk(KERN_INFO "rtl8187: inconsistency between id with OEM"
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