On Tue, 2 May 2006 11:39:30 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > It looks like one of your patches in wireless-dev.git broke management > interface. I'm not completely sure about how this was supposed to work, > but are the low-level drivers now expected to accept > IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MGMT in add_interface handler or should ieee80211.c be > modified to accept wmaster0ap to be set UP without asking the low-level > driver?
It shouldn't ask the driver. This was a part of the dropped patch for removing default management device. I will send a patch to address this particular issue later today. > In addition to this, it looked like sending packets from wmaster0ap did > not work. The packets were being dropped since originating device > (wmaster0ap) did not match in is_ieee80211_device(). This function > seemed to use wireless_handlers pointer for recognizing interfaces which > (like to comment says) is not that nice. wireless_handlers were not set > for apdev, so the patch below adds it to make TX work through > wmaster0ap. Oh, thanks for finding this. But we probably don't want wmaster0ap to have wireless_handlers set. I will try to rewrite is_ieee80211_device in some another way. Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
