Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:55146 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932176Ab0I3Urx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:47:53 -0400 Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so2878122iwn.19 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:47:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:47:31 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for WDS in ath9k (and mac80211, and nl80211) To: Bill Jordan Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Bill Jordan wrote: > I tried to submit this before, but I believe that version was lost to > the ether. Apologies > if this is a repeat. > > I'm trying to use WDS with ath9k, and I ran into some problems. In addition to > enabling WDS interfaces in ath9k, I also had to patch mac80211 to > allow xmits and > recvs to pass through on WDS interfaces. The rate table was also never being > initialized for WDS interfaces. > > I have also patched nl80211 so I have a mechanism to set the WDS peer bssid. > > With these patches, I'm able to interoperate over WDS between > linux-wireless and MadWifi. > I'm running wireless-testing plus OpenWRT patches on a Cambria board with > an AR9160 radio. > > Signed-off-by: Bill Jordan Nice can you please split these up into separate patches? Luis