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Re: [RFC v3 1/4] mac80211: don't transmit beacon with CSA count 0

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On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 16:39 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> A beacon should never have a Channel Switch Announcement information
> element with a count of 0, because a count of 1 means switch just
> before the next beacon.  So, if a count of 0 was valid in a beacon, it
> would have been transmitted in the next channel already, which is
> useless.  A CSA count equal to zero is only meaningful in action
> frames or probe_responses.
> 
> Fix the ieee80211_csa_is_complete() and ieee80211_update_csa()
> functions accordingly.

These seem fine to me - maybe we should have some CSA tests in Jouni's
hwsim test scripts, for the various cases? :)

johannes

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