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Re: [RFC 0/2] cfg80211: add channel switching awareness

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On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 13:43 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> > The channel switch is split into two phases now -
> > start and finalize. This is required to make
> > cfg80211 in control of the whole channel
> > switching process. It also makes it apparent that
> > mac80211's STA CSA offload doesn't work quite well
> > here. Can we kill it?
> 
> No. Well, you could make cfg80211 be in charge, but not wpa_supplicant,
> I think.

Actually, that might not make sense either, most non-mac80211 devices
would probably do that in firmware anyway and locking in the API to do
it "like mac80211" would thus probably be a bad idea.

johannes

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