I am UjjaL Roy from Namkhana, currently living at Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Writing WiFi driver.


Jan 7, 2014

Fixed bug in wext-compat of cfg80211 subsystem in Linux Kernel

cfg80211: fix wext-compat for getting retry value

Fixed bug in wext-compat of cfg80211 subsystem of 802.11 wireless networking in the Linux Kernel. The fix is accepted by the maintainer of wireless Linux "Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>". The patch is now available from Kernel version 3.14. The communication can be found in the following links -

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/117665
http://markmail.org/message/5wrlgibnwvgrw5o6

From now onward the fix can be found in the Linux Kernel tree. You can find the solve by searching google as "Ujjal Roy wext-compat".

The patch is now updated to the Kernel 3.14 tree and can be found on the link below -
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless.git/commit/?id=60a4fe0ae97b515f174f9bcb157cbaeff0dab8ac

No comments:

Post a Comment