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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:08:02 -0500
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Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:

> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 03:12 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > Yes.  And I could trace "iwgetid -m ath0" to cfg80211_wx_get_mode() in
> > net/wireless/wext-compat.c, which returns -ENOSYS unconditionally.  ath0 is
> > from current MadWifi.
>
> Now trace it further and notice that on -ENOSYS the original WE is
> invoked.

Not quite.  cfg80211_wext_ioctl() returns -ENODEV (no idea why), but the code
only falls back to Wireless Extensions if the return code is -ENOSYS.  That
should be quite easy to fix.

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Pavel Roskin