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Re: [PATCHv7 2/3] mac80211: add radar detection command/event

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:35:00AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > Well, yeah the reporting is currently done per interface. Reporting radars
> > for the hw is certainly possible as well - channel contexts are currently
> > not implemented in ath9k (where I test). The latest patchset works the same
> > way, although we can change that if you prefer. For the current implementation
> > (single channel, single vif) it makes no difference, maybe for future implementations.
> > I don't know if there are any weird corner cases though, and we probably need to
> > adjust the mac80211 interface too when to report radars on certain channels only
> > (e.g. extension channel radar).
> 
> It really just seems strange to me to report radar on all/any other
> interfaces to userspace. If we leave it up to the drivers, we'll get all
> kinds of strange behaviour ;-)
> 
> So it seems better to let mac80211 manage that?

I was afraid you'd say that ... :)

I'll include that change in the next iteration (it is a rather small fix). If you
find anything else in the v8 patchset, please let me know so I can include that.

Cheers,
	Simon

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