mac80211: fix wireless extension support
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:48:14 +0000 (12:48 +0000)
committerFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:48:14 +0000 (12:48 +0000)
SVN-Revision: 35759

package/mac80211/patches/030-wext.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/package/mac80211/patches/030-wext.patch b/package/mac80211/patches/030-wext.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..cb52e7c
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+--- a/net/wireless/core.c
++++ b/net/wireless/core.c
+@@ -884,6 +884,15 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call
+               wdev->sme_state = CFG80211_SME_IDLE;
+               mutex_unlock(&rdev->devlist_mtx);
+ #ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
++#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
++              if (!dev->wireless_handlers)
++                      dev->wireless_handlers = &cfg80211_wext_handler;
++#else
++              printk_once(KERN_WARNING "cfg80211: wext will not work because "
++                          "kernel was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. "
++                          "Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will "
++                          "not work.\n");
++#endif
+               wdev->wext.default_key = -1;
+               wdev->wext.default_mgmt_key = -1;
+               wdev->wext.connect.auth_type = NL80211_AUTHTYPE_AUTOMATIC;