netdev - Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

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Message-ID: <1258476223.21197.0.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:43:43 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
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, 2009-11-17 at 08:37 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> But there are people bridging wireless, and hostap even has a mode for
> that. 

But that's the AP side, which this patch doesn't attempt to prevent. It
just makes no sense to bridge when connected to an AP or part of an
IBSS.

johannes

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