[Buildroot] [PATCH] hostapd: add support for Realtek driver

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:08:11 +0300, Alexander Mukhin wrote:
> Since kernel drivers for Realtek wireless chips use non-standard
> interfaces, upstream hostapd does not support them. One have to apply
> an external patch for hostapd to work with these chips. See:
> https://github.com/pritambaral/hostapd-rtl871xdrv
> 
> A configuration option is added to enable support for Realtek chips,
> and it's turned off by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Mukhin <alexander.i.mukhin at gmail.com>
> ---
>  DEVELOPERS                   | 3 +++
>  package/hostapd/Config.in    | 5 +++++
>  package/hostapd/hostapd.hash | 1 +
>  package/hostapd/hostapd.mk   | 5 +++++
>  4 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

To be honest, I was about to reject your patch: it's basically adding a
feature patch to a package, which we normally don't do, and the patch
is very likely to break when we update to newer versions of hostapd.

But I saw that both Peter and Arnout had a look at the problem, and the
overall feeling is that there really isn't a better solution.

So, I've applied to next. We'll see how often it breaks hostapd (or
not).

Thanks!

Thomas
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