Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for change in STA handling in mac80211

[Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>]

--- On Thu, 11/12/08, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know the verdict yet - but I think we need
> to either revert Johannes's earlier patch, or have this
> change from Larry incoporated, ASAP.
> > 
> > Hin-Tak
> 
> No, the best solution is to incorporate Johannes patch of
> today. Now that I
> understand what happened, my patch just wallpapers over his
> mistake.
> 
> To explain how that happened, he used
> NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION (2) when he meant
> BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)(4). My "fix" works
> because BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
> == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION.

okay, I like my wlan* device not to disappear. One way or the other, this needs fixing ASAP. It was very weird to put the latest wireless-testing on and wlanX is nowhere to be found :-). I'll dig through the archive for the patch. (still not subscribe to linux-wireless - maybe I should when I figure out gmail's filtering system).

Hin-Tak