2008-11-09 16:39:48

by Jouni Malinen

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Subject: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: Update documentation (AP mode enabled)

AP mode is now enabled in mac80211, so there is no need to point users
to an additional patch to enable the mode. In addition, add a pointer to
more hwsim test cases in hostap.git.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>


Index: wireless-testing/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
+++ wireless-testing/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ associates with the AP. hostapd and wpa_
care of WPA2-PSK authentication. In addition, hostapd is also
processing access point side of association.

-Please note that the current Linux kernel does not enable AP mode, so a
-simple patch is needed to enable AP mode selection:
-http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/006-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch
-

# Build mac80211_hwsim as part of kernel configuration

@@ -65,3 +61,8 @@ hostapd hostapd.conf

# Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf
+
+
+More test cases are available in hostap.git:
+git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git and mac80211_hwsim/tests subdirectory
+(http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=tree;f=mac80211_hwsim/tests)

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