Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4451 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758312AbYFZRrT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:47:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:36:45 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Michael Buesch Cc: Pavel Roskin , Stefanik =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= , Johannes Berg , cs010101@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Q] ath5k : doesn't support AP mode? Message-ID: <20080626173645.GB22075@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080626_194730_970695_0BE1096A) References: <002901c8d737$e51bb2f0$3b0aa8c0@39fb6b6b6f434b3> <69e28c910806260846s3b02cdddlca3ac138acadd8bd@mail.gmail.com> <1214496086.30722.14.camel@dv> <200806261821.31643.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <200806261821.31643.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:21:31PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:01:26 Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:46 +0200, Stefanik G=E1bor wrote: > >=20 > > > Maybe we had more people working on/debugging AP mode if we didn'= t > > > intentionally disable the existing limited support for it... Poss= ibly > > > print a big warning that "THIS IS NOT STANDARDS_COMPLIANT YET!", = but > > > outright disabling it and requiring an external patch is IMHO stu= pid. > > > Perhaps a Kconfig option with EXPERIMENTAL and default=3Dn would = be > > > better. > >=20 > > I agree. More people would be looking into AP support for individu= al > > drivers if mac80211 didn't need a patch. >=20 > I'd also like to get something like the following merged: > Subject: mac80211: allow AP and VLAN modes >=20 > This patch is based on a patch by Johannes Berg. > It allows switching interfaces into AP/VLAN modes using > cfg80211 (nl80211). Don't allow doing it with wext because then > people will just attempt to do it manually (without hostapd) and > complain that it doesn't work. I dunno...that last thing I want is to let this go in and then be locked-in to the current API no-matter-what like we now are with WEXT. John --=20 John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html