Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:37522 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750797Ab0I3Uu6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:50:58 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so931313gxk.19 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:50:36 -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 1:47 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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? That is, one for cfg80211 first, then mac80212, and then one for ath9k. Luis