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Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: Support dynamic AP mode channel width changes

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On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 10:57 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:

> > +static int ieee80211_set_ap_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy,
> > +                                   struct net_device *dev,
> > +                                   struct cfg80211_chan_def *chandef)
> > +{
> > +       struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
> > +       int ret;
> > +       u32 changed = 0;
> > +
> 
> Shouldn't interface combinations be verified here? What if there was a
> bandwidth upgrade (after a downgrade) but in the meantime a vif with a
> to-be incompatible chandef was brought up?

Yeah that seems like a potential issue.

> I think the existing usage
> of ieee80211_vif_change_bandwidth() in ieee80211_config_bw() already
> suffers from this problem or am I missing something?

That sounds like you're arguing it should be fixed in a separate patch
to ieee80211_vif_change_bandwidth()? :)

johannes

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