Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:39879 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752056AbZAWPZC (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:25:02 -0500 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so2166632ywe.1 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:25:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:25:00 +0000 Message-ID: (sfid-20090123_162508_375428_40BAE758) Subject: Re: ath5k mesh in 2.6.28? From: Keir To: Bob Copeland Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I would really like support in 2.6.28, but I don't want to inconvenience anyone... who's Greg? What I would really like is ath5k mesh support in a stable kernel, the wireless-testing kernel I'm currently using is too unstable for my testing. Cheers Keir 2009/1/23 Bob Copeland : > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Keir wrote: >> Hi, >> >> According to the 802.11s website it seems to claim that mesh >> networking is supported for ath5k devices in kernel 2.6.28, however, >> upon running ifconfig mesh0 up (having previously created the mesh >> device using iw) I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported". > > 2.6.28 does not support mesh, at least from looking at the code, > ath5k_add_interface has: > > switch (conf->type) { > case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: > case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: > case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR: > sc->opmode = conf->type; > break; > default: > ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; > goto end; > } > > It needs to at least also have NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT. > > Mesh was enabled for 2.6.29 via b706e65b40417e03c2451bb3f92488f3736843fa, > so if you need it in 2.6.28 you can ask Greg to pick it up for stable. > > -- > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com >