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mac80211: allow mode change if IBSS is not allowed

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Changing mode on an interface is not allowed if IBSS is disabled for the
current channel.  That restriction should only apply when switching to
the ad-hoc mode, as it was prior to "cfg80211: handle SIOCGIWMODE/SIOCSIWMODE".

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Pavel Roskin 2008-12-22 16:39:36 -05:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 4fb7404e0e
commit dcebf45cdc
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@ -699,7 +699,8 @@ int ieee80211_if_change_type(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
return 0;
/* Setting ad-hoc mode on non-IBSS channel is not supported. */
if (sdata->local->oper_channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS)
if (sdata->local->oper_channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS &&
type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
/*