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

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Message-ID: <1258466692.3682.12.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:04:52 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:58 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:

> > To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a
> > wireless interface to a bridge.
> > 
> > Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP
> > and client side that can be used (after negotiating that
> > it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting
> > up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> 
> ACK -- we get these complaints fairly often...
> 
> I don't think I've sent the 4addr stuff to Dave yet.  Should I just
> take this through my tree?

After ack from Stephen maybe?

johannes

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