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Message-ID: <20091117083741.1b165274@nehalam> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:37:41 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:07:48 +0100 Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 15:04 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:46:25 Johannes Berg wrote: > > > --- wireless-testing.orig/net/bridge/br_if.c 2009-11-17 14:19:17.000000000 +0100 > > > +++ wireless-testing/net/bridge/br_if.c 2009-11-17 14:20:03.000000000 +0100 > > > @@ -390,6 +390,10 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, str > > > if (dev->br_port != NULL) > > > return -EBUSY; > > > > > > + /* No bridging devices that dislike that (e.g. wireless) */ > > > + if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_DONT_BRIDGE) > > > + return -EINVAL; > > > > -EOPNOTSUPP? > > That would probably produce a better error message in userspace. But there are people bridging wireless, and hostap even has a mode for that. Especially people are bridging to wireless when the other interfaces are VMs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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