Re: Problem with bridges and wireless NIC's

[Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo.org>]

2010/3/1 Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:12:48AM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
>> That sounds interresting, is there any chance that that functionality
>> can be added to the 0.6.x branch too? (I'm maintaining hostapd in
>> Gentoo, but cannot stabilize a 0.7.x build, due to it being a
>> development branch)
>
> While it might be relatively simple to port the bridge setup code into
> 0.6.x, I'm not that keen on doing it for this particular reason. I'm
> recommending 0.7.x branch for all AP functionality with nl80211-based
> driver interface and as such, do not really want to promote use of 0.6.x
> versions for this.
>
> I started working on porting the driver_nl80211.c changes into the 0.6.x
> branch, but that turned up to take way too much effort compared to what
> the potential benefit would be. As such, I do not plan on continuing on
> this direction and you should be prepared to quite a bit of additional
> work on porting non-trivial fixes from hostapd 0.7.x yourself if you
> plan on using hostapd 0.6.x in Gentoo with mac80211/nl80211-based
> drivers.
>
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Okay, so the best thing to do, is to advise people to reverse the
patch if the need 0.6.x, or use 0.7.x - right?
If so, thats fine with me :-)

Best regards,
Bjarke Istrup Pedersen