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

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On 14 May 2014 10:25, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 07:14 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
>
>> Hmm.. I thought of it more as a theoretical appliance of the transaction API.
>>
>> Let me re-post his example:
>>
>> > With the generic transactions you could do:
>> >  - new chanctx2
>> >  - new chanctx3
>> >  - switch vif1 chanctx1->chanctx2
>> >  - switch vif2 chanctx1->chanctx3
>> >  - del chanctx1
>>
>> From this I infer you can run at least 2 chanctx since that's what you
>> end up with. This means you can perform one of the switches separately
>> because only 1 chanctx was used (that's the easy part that never
>> really required transactions or multi-vif-chanctx-assign to begin
>> with). The other switch would fall into the "incompat case" where you
>> need to basically swap chanctx for one of the vifs in the example.
>>
>> So I fail to see why we would need to have a list of old/new contexts
>> in the proposed switch_vif_chanctx(), at least for now.
>
> Further down the thread there was a discussion about e.g. radar
> detection with the combinations, when one needs radar and the other
> doesn't or something, then maybe you're running into a situation where
> some interface combination allows more than 2 channels and the other
> doesn't, or such.

Ah, you're right. I missed that. In that case we need to pass a list
of old/new contexts to switch_vif_chanctx().


Michał
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