From: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
To: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: 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 12:17:12 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <127576.99770.qm@web23107.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49407404.WzMzB28hDBCaCLlQ%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
--- On Thu, 11/12/08, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
<snipped>
> After commit ca247d5f50acd4fc6fdc1dec770e726b0d7eda60
> "mac80211: only create
> default STA interface if supported", rtl8187 stopped
> working because the
> add_interface callback was not called. For reasons that I
> do not understand,
> the IFTYPE_ADHOC bit, as well as the IFTYPE_STATION bit,
> must be set in the
> interface_modes variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger
> <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Okay, the disappeared wlan* device is back.
> John,
>
> This should be added to wireless-testing as soon as
> possible.
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 12:17 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 [this message]
2008-12-11 15:33 ` Larry Finger
2008-12-11 17:33 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2008-12-11 17:37 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-12-11 19:24 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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