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Re: [PATCH V5] mac80211: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl to provide rate information

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On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:54:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> +	sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
> +	if (sdata->type == IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA ||
> +	    sdata->type == IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_IBSS)
> +		sta = sta_info_get(local, sdata->u.sta.bssid);

Quoting Michael's comment about V3 version of your patch:

> Also, this function is safe in adhoc mode.. but it most likely won't do
> anything useful since all the sta entries have different addresses and
> it is likely that none of them are the same as the one in
> sdata->u.sta.bssid.

Do you have some reason for implementing this function for IBSS mode?
If not, could you return -EOPNOTSUPP in IBSS mode?

Thanks,

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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