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Re: [PATCH] try 2: mac80211: Fix swapped parameters to ieee80211_set_channel()

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> However this description does not match the implementation. The
> implementation is that its a channel if e = 0. My "frequency" is > 1000,  
> but it was still interpreted as a channel. Looking at the
> implementation of iw_float2freq(), the description should be that a
> value less than 1e9 is a channel. 
> 
> So there should really be a check in the user space tools which says
> that values between 1000 and 1e9 are invalid. This would catch errors
> like the one i made for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

Yeah, well, we all know wext sucks. You are of course right, but I think
that nobody's motivated any more to fix things.

johannes

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