Return-path: Received: from web23101.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([217.146.189.41]:30609 "HELO web23101.mail.ird.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755942AbYLKL61 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:58:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:58:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Hin-Tak Leung Reply-To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for change in STA handling in mac80211 To: Larry Finger , Johannes Berg Cc: John W Linville , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1228984004.15837.77.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: <99722.20602.qm@web23101.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (sfid-20081211_125843_303010_AE616F26) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --- On Thu, 11/12/08, Johannes Berg wrote: > From: Johannes Berg > Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for change in STA handling in mac80211 > To: "Larry Finger" > Cc: "John W Linville" , "Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski" , "Hin-Tak Leung" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org > Date: Thursday, 11 December, 2008, 8:26 AM > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 19:59 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > After commit ca247d5f50acd4fc6fdc1dec770e726b0d7eda60 > "mac80211: only create > > default STA interface if supported", rtl8187 > stopped working because the > > add_interface callback was not called. For reasons > that I do not understand, > > the IFTYPE_ADHOC bit, as well as the IFTYPE_STATION > bit, must be set in the > > interface_modes variable. > > Because I'm stupid. Don't apply this patch. okay - that explains why my wlan* device disappeared last night after upgrading to the latest wireless-testing :-). I knew breakage like that got to be big news in the wireless-testing mailing list, *if only and as soon as I can revert the change to get my wireless connectivity back*. I better go and check Larry's patch and see how it turns out :-). Write again soon, after I have tested Larry's patch, hopefully. Hin-Tak