[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package/hostapd: enable Linux ioctls for VLANs

Sergey Matyukevich geomatsi at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 07:27:00 UTC 2019


....

> >>  Indeed, since vlan_full.c includes linux_ioctl, it makes sense to enable that
> >> in drivers.mk. Could you send a patch doing that upstream?
> >
> > Sure, will do. But hostapd upstreaming is going to take some time.
> > As for Buildroot, I have two options for this patch then:
> > - to keep this fix until next hostapd version update
> > - drop this fix and add hostapd patch to packages/hostapd directory
>
>  I mulled over this for some time before finally applying the patch as is.
>
>  Please do send a proper fix to upstream hostapd. When the version is bumped we
> can remove the current fix again. And if we forget, it's not the end of the world.

Patch has been already sent to hostapd mailing list. When it is accepted,
I will replace current solution in hostapd package makefile with a separate
patch for hostapd. In this caseuild failure will not let us to forget about it
when we bump hostapd version next time.

Regards,
Sergey


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