wlan adhoc mode crash

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/1/09, John Hay <jhay at meraka.org.za> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best list.
>
> I'm trying to get our Avila (arm) boards with atheros wireless cards
> upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0. We use adhoc mode and I get a panic in
> ieee80211_getcapinfo() because the chan pointer is 0xffff which seems
> to mean IEEE80211_CHAN_ANY in other places. So the question is, should
> ieee80211_getcapinfo() never be called with chan being 0xffff or should
> it know how to handle that case?

IEEE80211_CHAN_ANY is there to mean no channel is selected, so you can not call
getcapinfo with such argument.