wpa_supplicant: secured mesh and WiLink8 issue

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Machani, Yaniv <yanivma at ti.com> wrote:
> Hi Yegor,
> Glad it helped.
> Yes, you can use just the mentioned kernel if you'd like, just note that
> there are some features/improvements done on the hostap as well.

do you mean there are some patches, that are still not in hostap
upstream master branch?

> We will have a look at the 4.9 kernel, see what have gone wrong there.
>
> Regards,
> Yaniv
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
> Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2016, 11:32
> To: "Machani, Yaniv" <yanivma at ti.com>
> CC: Bob Copeland <me at bobcopeland.com>, Jeroen Roovers <jer at airfi.aero>,
> hostap at lists.infradead.org, "Mishol, Guy" <guym at ti.com>, "Altshul, Maxim"
> <maxim.altshul at ti.com>, "Hahn, Maital" <maitalm at ti.com>, "Loewy, Chen"
> <c-loewy at ti.com>, "Reizer, Eyal" <eyalr at ti.com>
> Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant: secured mesh and WiLink8 issue
>
> Hi Yaniv,
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Machani, Yaniv <yanivma at ti.com> wrote:
>> Hi Yegor,
>> To establish a baseline here,
>> Can you try using the officially supported packages by TI (Version R8.7) ?
>> See release notes here :
>> http://software-dl.ti.com/ecs/WiLink8/R8_7/exports/release_notes_R8_7.html
>> It was validated to work with open and secured modes, based on Kernel
>> 4.4.8 and hostap 2.5+
>> Related commits:
>> Hostap :
>> http://git.ti.com/wilink8-wlan/hostap/commit/2f81a831e29a4d44d6abbac34e3280e8471f61ef
>> Linux Kernel :
>> http://git.ti.com/wilink8-wlan/wl18xx/commit/13c25bca8d5229c8d5cf5776a13647b020e29588
>> The Firmware version you are using is supporting secured mesh, so no
>> issues there.
>>
>> You can also have a look in our build guides
>> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/WL18xx_System_Build_Scripts
>
> Thanks. It is working!
>
> Btw. can I just use
> http://git.ti.com/wilink8-wlan/wilink8-wlan-ti-linux-kernel instead of
> the procedure used above?
>
> Are you going to fix 4.9? This kernel is an LTS kernel and will also
> be used in the upcoming Debian version.
>
> Regards,
> Yegor