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

From: Michael Buesch <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:04:52 +0100

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.

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Greetings, Michael.