Subject: Re: Master mode in iw
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Cc: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:06:51 +0100
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On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 13:56 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > Thanks for you quick response. I know that I can set master mode
> > with hostapd.
> >
> > My question is - is there something inherent which prevents
> > implementing it with "iw"? When comparing to the old set of tools,
> > which includes iwconifg, "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" works on some
> > interfaces.
>=20
> Just guessing, but most probably because there are no drivers which
> use nl80211 and support AP mode without hostapd, so nobody hasn't
> bothered to implement it, yet.

And there never will be since we don't want the whole AP MLME in the
kernel regardless of the driver.

johannes

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