0003802: Adding network bridging to fsimx6sx causes WLAN driver to fail

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003802	fsimx_Linux	Ethernet	public	2019-01-30 09:53	2019-01-30 09:54

Reporter	Keller	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	sometimes
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	fsimx6ul-V2.1
Target Version	fsimx6-B2019.08	Fixed in Version	fsimx6-B2019.08

Summary	0003802: Adding network bridging to fsimx6sx causes WLAN driver to fail
Description	A customer wants to add network bridging and firewall support to his efusA9X. But even small modifications in the network stack cause the Silex WLAN driver to crash. This driver is only available in binary form for the customers. Changing the network settings seems to cause compatibility issues, for example because additional entries appear or disappear in some generic network structures. The pre-compiled Silex driver is not aware of this, accesses the wrong members, gets wrong results and eventually fails. The only possibility that we see is that we add more features to the network stack by default, so that most customers will be satisfied. Then we build the Silex driver against this stack and tell customers not to change anything in this configuration anymore.

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