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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211/nl80211: Add support to report unsafe frequency ranges(s)

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On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 17:19 +0000, Chauhan, Rajesh wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> Thanks for your comment. Purpose of this patch is to add an API for
> WLAN driver to report frequency ranges which should be avoided for
> SAP/P2P-GO because of interference.
> 
> How about if I reword commit test as below?
> 
> cfg80211/nl80211: Add API to report frequency range(s) to be avoided
> 
> Add support for WLAN driver to report frequency range(s) to be avoided
> because of interference.

Wouldn't it make more sense to raise a "detected interference" event?
There's no way to know what channel range is affected anyway. I fear
that this is vague enough for you to (ab)use it for all kinds of random
"channel steering" from the driver.

johannes

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