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Message-ID: <1258466868.3682.13.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:07:48 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
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 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.

Good idea, will wait a bit for other comments and fix this when I send
as [PATCH].

johannes

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