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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: do not check for carrier during start_radar_detect

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On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 11:36 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 02:30 -0800, Avinash Patil wrote:
> > Oops..
> > 
> > Are you talking about this?
> > >>So, at least we should move if (netif_carrier_ok(dev)) check to mac80211 otherwise we might change channel of the running interface (via vif_use_channel).
> > 
> > I can move this check to ieee80211_start_radar_detection but I dont have any hardware to test these modifications.
> 
> That should be ok - however maybe you don't need those modifications at
> all?
> 
> Frankly I'm not even sure how off-channel CAC stuff would work but
> Janusz probably knows what he's talking about :)

Also - maybe we need some sort of capability flag for this, and then the
check doesn't have to move but just be made conditional on not having
the feature?

johannes

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