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Re: [PATCH v5] mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations

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On May 7, 2014 2:09:54 PM EEST, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 12:27 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
>
>> > > It's a separate issue really - but sure: the iwlwifi firmware API
>will
>> > > likely not allow doing such trickery in the IBSS case, so we
>should have
>> > > a bitmap of supported interface types (e.g.
>BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
>> > > | ...) for the channel switch operation.
>> > 
>> > Ah, I get it now. Thanks.
>> 
>> I guess this should be done when the actual support for AP, STATION
>and
>> so on is added? For example, add the station flag with the "mac80211:
>> use chanctx reservation for STA CSA" patch and so on...
>
>I don't know if we really want separate flags, rather than maybe a new
>field with an interface types supported bitmap?

Yes, that's what I had in mind too (as we discussed offline). I meant STA, AP etc. flags in this new bitmask, not in the existing HW_CONF stuff.

--
Luca.


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