From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>,
freemangordon@abv.bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] wl1251 IBSS fixes
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 22:03:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201405092203.00729@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANOLnOO0xPH9kfZuqdbpYkdQrOFAOvL-4H0QmfAUVKCwg0ot2Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 09 May 2014 02:21:21 Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas
<notasas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > IBSS mode is currently advertised by wl1251 driver but is
> > totally broken. First there is a disconnect hack for
> > monitor mode that was recently merged, it abuses mac80211
> > and causes corruption in IBSS mode, so I think should be
> > reverted. Then there are several cases of station-only
> > mac80211 functions called carelessly, what is also fixed.
>
> Ping.
> This driver is orphan and hardware carrying it is outdated, so
> acks / tested-bys are unlikely..
Now I'm testing these patches on wireless-testing git tree from
year 2010 compiled against patched maemo 2.6.28 kernel.
Reason for using these historical wireless-testing version is
that this version can be compiled against kernel which working
with default Maemo system in Nokia N900.
It looks like your patches fixed some kernel oops when iwconfig
changing mode to ad-hoc.
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 0:09 [PATCH 0/4] wl1251 IBSS fixes Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-04-22 0:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] Revert "wl1251: enforce changed hw encryption support on monitor state change" Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-04-22 0:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] wl1251: fix null data for IBSS Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-04-22 0:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] wl1251: fix mixed up args for join Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-04-22 0:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] wl1251: only call ieee80211_beacon_loss in managed mode Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-05-09 0:21 ` [PATCH 0/4] wl1251 IBSS fixes Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-05-09 20:03 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2014-05-10 12:28 ` Pali Rohár
2014-05-30 16:18 ` Pali Rohár
2014-05-31 13:15 ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2014-05-31 13:20 ` Pali Rohár
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