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Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211: Fix incompatible interfaces combination
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:18:51 +0200
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On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 21:46 +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:

> >> i am able to create an IBSS interface even if a STA interface is up and
> >> running in ath9k(removing the driver checks).
> >>
> >> this patch ensures that if we have an incompatible interface, it is the
> >> only one can that can exist.
> >
> > Right, ok, I see that it's broken now, trying to see if there's a better
> > fix though.
> 
> sure, thank you.

I'm not really sure, but if I understand the code & problem correctly I
think this should also help:
http://p.sipsolutions.net/a57eeac50c248408.txt

Untested though.

johannes