Re: [Q] ath5k : doesn't support AP mode?

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:21:31PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:01:26 Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:46 +0200, Stefanik G=E1bor wrote:
> >=20
> > > Maybe we had more people working on/debugging AP mode if we didn'=
t
> > > intentionally disable the existing limited support for it... Poss=
ibly
> > > print a big warning that "THIS IS NOT STANDARDS_COMPLIANT YET!", =
but
> > > outright disabling it and requiring an external patch is IMHO stu=
pid.
> > > Perhaps a Kconfig option with EXPERIMENTAL and default=3Dn would =
be
> > > better.
> >=20
> > I agree.  More people would be looking into AP support for individu=
al
> > drivers if mac80211 didn't need a patch.
>=20
> I'd also like to get something like the following merged:

> Subject: mac80211: allow AP and VLAN modes
>=20
> This patch is based on a patch by Johannes Berg.
> It allows switching interfaces into AP/VLAN modes using
> cfg80211 (nl80211). Don't allow doing it with wext because then
> people will just attempt to do it manually (without hostapd) and
> complain that it doesn't work.

I dunno...that last thing I want is to let this go in and then be
locked-in to the current API no-matter-what like we now are with WEXT.

John
--=20
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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