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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:48:07 +0100
From: "Piotr Haber" <phaber@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: advertise extended capabilities to
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On 02/27/13 13:32, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 13:30 +0100, Piotr Haber wrote:
> 
>> seems like this patch pushed wiphy info length over the limit
>> for dual band devices.
>> So userspace cannot get any info about phy capabilities.
> 
> Yeah ... was it this patch? I did revert some others, but I guess it
> depends.
did not bisect, but that was the last big thing added there

>> I know there is a patch for nl80211 and iw to allow splitting of this info,
>> but it is not in 3.8
>> Should we not revert it for stable then?
> 
> Yeah we can revert this too, a la the patches already in to remove TCP
> wakeup and radar info. What kernel are you testing?
> 
i have one built from wireless-testing master-2013-02-19