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Re: ieee80211_radar_status?

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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 06:50 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:36:21AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > Is there any documentation for the arguments to ieee80211_radar_status?
> 
> Apparently not. It looks like it was only used for reporting a detected
> radar and none of the arguments were really used, i.e., it is just a
> callback from low-level driver to notify if a radar was detected on the
> current channel.

Huh, ok, but why were the arguments added then. Oh well, doesn't matter
much.

> > When moving to nl80211, this shall be handled there, but since we don't
> > have anybody using it right now we might as well kill it off completely
> > until we need it (again).
> 
> This function is called by low-level driver and it would not have
> anything to do with nl80211.. The ieee80211_msg_radar type message to
> user space would be the one that would need to be replaced.

Yeah, true, but unless I see something using it I don't think I can
properly define the semantics for the nl80211 message, and thus I can't
define the semantics for cfg80211, and then not for the function that
the low-level driver calls...

johannes

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