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Re: [RFC 6/9] mac80211: track CSA globally

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On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 15:11 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:

> >> >> For CSA to be safe it needs to be treated the same
> >> >> way as radar detection, scanning and remain on
> >> >> channel - all of those (including CSA) must be
> >> >> mutually exclusive.
> >> >
> >> > This I don't understand. Why couldn't you do a remain-on(some
> >> > other)-channel or scan while counting down the beacons?
> >>
> >> My concern is software offchannel (be it scan or roc) involves channel
> >> context switches. I wanted to avoid any channel context mangling while
> >> CSA is in progress. Does that make sense to you?
> >
> > No, I don't really get it. Why?
> 
> Hmm. Perhaps I was a little overcautious. Offchannel stuff doesn't use
> channel contexts at all, right? It recalculates channel in hw_config()
> and doesn't touch channel contexts so it should be safe.

Software offchannel and scan are incompatible with channel contexts,
yes.

johannes

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