On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:42:07PM +0000, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: [...] > Thanks a lot for investigating this so well and providing a patch, > which seems to have gotten decent testing and looks to be pretty > straight forward. However I'm concerned that this particular patch > appears to be around three years old, without having been merged into > hostapd upstream, despite the patch author usually being quite active > in upstream development[1] of these wireless needs... > > Given that the old bugtracker at w1.fi no longer exists, I can't > confirm at the moment if this patch had been submitted upstream and/ or > if it has been rejected for any reasons, which makes me a bit reluctant > to apply it to Debian. So far I haven't come to a conclusion yet and > while this patch might not be part of the very next wpa upload, I'll > keep it in mind.
Thanks. I understand your reluctance. I am not that familiar with hostapd, but wanted to share a fix for my issue ;-) Having a quick look through the current hostapd GIT (http://hostap.epitest.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c), I think the patch *functionality* is incorporated: HUNK 1 appears around line 9376. The changes to wpa_driver_nl80211_if_remove() are no longer directly necessary because the order of the logic has been changed and most of the function is skipped for non WPA_IF_AP_BSS by the test if (type != WPA_IF_AP_BSS) return 0; at line 9780. The GIT implementation of wpa_driver_nl80211_if_remove() may well be cleaner and more preferable. Perhaps that would be a better fix? I hope that helps. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
