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On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 17:05:12 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
>>
>> Don't shoot me, please, it really _was_ a merge issue.  My patch did
>> not insert anything in the middle:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/752292  and it was sent a day
>> before you sent the patch adding WoWLAN support:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/753772/
>
> Yeah, my mistake, sorry :( I spent half an hour trying to figure out why
> wowlan was just not doing anything and got really confused...
>
> I wonder what we can do to fix it. Reverting it doesn't really help anyone
> either. I have WoWLAN committed in iw and it suddenly fails working in
> mysterious ways because of the added attribute. I suppose you have the same
> problem somewhere with the mesh tools though? Maybe we can just move the
> plink attribute? iw's master branch already has the wowlan code ... But I
> could just as well update nl80211.h in iw I suppose since it's all not
> released anyway, thoughts?

It's ok to move the plink_state attribute.  There are only a handful
of users of the secured mesh at this point.

Javier

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cozybit Inc.
http://www.cozybit.com
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