brcm80211 and ad-hoc

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Roland Vossen (rvossen at broadcom.com):
> Hello Serge,
> 
> >Is there a mailing list devoted to the brcm80211 open driver
> >development?  I didn't notice one and you seemed to be the
> >most frequent committer, so I'm emailing you, but please let
> >me know if I should be going elsewhere.
> 
> The driver developer mailing list is the primary communication
> mechanism. Ref:
> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Just subscribed, thanks.

> >I've got a lenovo s10-3.  I'm currently having to use the wl
> >driver in 2.6.38 (ubuntu natty kernel) because brcm80211
> >doesn't seem to handle ad-hoc.
> >
> >I just wanted to make sure - is that expected, or is it
> >supposed to work and this is a bug?
> 
> Our driver does not yet support ad-hoc mode, as described on:
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 in the section
> 'To be done once softmac driver is in mainline'.
> 
> We plan to add ad-hoc mode, however our driver is still in the
> 'staging' directory, which means that we cannot add new features.

Ok, thanks - I just wanted to make sure this wasn't a bug with just
my card slipping through the cracks.

thanks,
-serge