From: "Joerg Albert" <jal2@gmx.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ar9170usb crashes during iwconfig for ad-hoc mode
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:36:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803123642.242160@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249289274.4561.0.camel@johannes.local>
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:44 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> > > > ifconfig wlan1 down
> > > > iwconfig wlan1 mode managed essid huhu
> > > > ifconfig wlan1 up
> > > > ifconfig wlan1 down
> > > > iwconfig wlan1 mode ad-hoc essid huhu_a channel 1
>
> > No, it's a bug in cfg80211 :)
>
> But it's not making sense to me. I'll have to try to reproduce it. In
> any case, we shouldn't be calling in to mac80211 from cfg80211 while the
> interface is down.
I guess this is caused by the call to __cfg80211_leave_ibss()
in net/wireless/ibss.c::cfg80211_ibss_wext_siwfreq() trying to
disable the beacon via net/mac80211::ieee80211_ibss_leave().
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-02 13:23 ar9170usb crashes during iwconfig for ad-hoc mode Joerg Albert
2009-08-02 22:28 ` Joerg Albert
2009-08-03 8:44 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-03 8:47 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-03 12:36 ` Joerg Albert [this message]
2009-08-03 13:09 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-08-03 20:46 ` Joerg Albert
2009-08-03 14:25 ` Johannes Berg
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