Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x

2012-08-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 12:14 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Normally a single patch doesn't warrant a 0/1, but Liang did some > digging on this problem and came up with important background, and > several possible solutions, so I wanted to capture what he'd learned. > > The issues with creating an

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gortmaker
[Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x] On 01/08/2012 (Wed 19:42) Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 13:38 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > > > 1) cherry pick 8e8b41f9d, and all the driver specific changes it > > > > requires

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x

2012-08-01 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 13:38 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > 1) cherry pick 8e8b41f9d, and all the driver specific changes it requires > > > > > > 2) make a sub-commit for stable that just takes the total==1 from #1. > > > > > > 3) patch iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c and add ".types = > > > BIT(NL80

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gortmaker
[Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x] On 01/08/2012 (Wed 18:31) Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 12:14 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > [...] > > > However, things still weren't right unless he also cherry picked the > > 8e8b4

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x

2012-08-01 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 12:14 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: [...] > However, things still weren't right unless he also cherry picked the > 8e8b41f9d8c8e6 ("cfg80211: enforce lack of interface combinations") > to get the later mentioned "total == 1" check within, so that we > avoid the EBUSY above.

[RFC/PATCH 0/1] Fix inability to configure adhoc in 3.4.x

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Normally a single patch doesn't warrant a 0/1, but Liang did some digging on this problem and came up with important background, and several possible solutions, so I wanted to capture what he'd learned. The issues with creating an ad-hoc network started in 3.4.3 with the cherry pick of 463454b5dbd