From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:58:28 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] hostapd: add support for Realtek driver In-Reply-To: <20170914110811.1670-1-alexander.i.mukhin@gmail.com> References: <874C29DC-F92F-46E8-9323-EF25658D8834@gmail.com> <20170914110811.1670-1-alexander.i.mukhin@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20171124215828.47855fdd@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:08:11 +0300, Alexander Mukhin wrote: > Since kernel drivers for Realtek wireless chips use non-standard > interfaces, upstream hostapd does not support them. One have to apply > an external patch for hostapd to work with these chips. See: > https://github.com/pritambaral/hostapd-rtl871xdrv > > A configuration option is added to enable support for Realtek chips, > and it's turned off by default. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Mukhin > --- > DEVELOPERS | 3 +++ > package/hostapd/Config.in | 5 +++++ > package/hostapd/hostapd.hash | 1 + > package/hostapd/hostapd.mk | 5 +++++ > 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+) To be honest, I was about to reject your patch: it's basically adding a feature patch to a package, which we normally don't do, and the patch is very likely to break when we update to newer versions of hostapd. But I saw that both Peter and Arnout had a look at the problem, and the overall feeling is that there really isn't a better solution. So, I've applied to next. We'll see how often it breaks hostapd (or not). Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com