From: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for change in STA handling in mac80211
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:33:18 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <103016.83139.qm@web23103.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494132C3.5070907@lwfinger.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 1:59 [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for change in STA handling in mac80211 Larry Finger
2008-12-11 8:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 11:58 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2008-12-11 12:17 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2008-12-11 15:33 ` Larry Finger
2008-12-11 17:33 ` Hin-Tak Leung [this message]
2008-12-11 17:37 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-12-11 19:24 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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