From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:04:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258466692.3682.12.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091117135817.GC27743@tuxdriver.com>
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On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:58 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a
> > wireless interface to a bridge.
> >
> > Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP
> > and client side that can be used (after negotiating that
> > it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting
> > up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
>
> ACK -- we get these complaints fairly often...
>
> I don't think I've sent the 4addr stuff to Dave yet. Should I just
> take this through my tree?
After ack from Stephen maybe?
johannes
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 13:46 [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1258465585.3682.7.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-17 13:58 ` John W. Linville
2009-11-17 14:04 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-11-17 14:04 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200911171504.54170.mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-17 14:06 ` John W. Linville
2009-11-17 14:07 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1258466868.3682.13.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-17 16:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-17 16:43 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1258476223.21197.0.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-17 17:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-17 17:05 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-17 20:41 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-17 20:48 ` [RFC v2] " Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1258490898.21197.42.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-17 22:42 ` Julian Calaby
2009-11-17 22:46 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-17 22:50 ` Julian Calaby
2009-11-17 22:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-17 22:45 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-18 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <jwvy6m4bnqp.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-18 2:59 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20091118025920.GA4588-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-18 10:52 ` Johannes Berg
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