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Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type

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On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 11:24 +0200, Lior David wrote:
> 
> On 2/2/2016 5:10 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> ......
> > Actually, one more question: Why does the kernel have to know at
> > *connect* time that it should be a PBSS? It could tell that from
> > the
> > scan results, by looking for PBSS if it can't find AP in there, no?
> > 
> Yes it can be implemented that way. However we wanted user space to
> be able
> to specify exactly whether to connect to an AP or PCP. Since PBSS is
> a separate
> network type and we don't want clients to get an unexpected
> connection to
> a PCP. We also don't want to support roaming between a PCP and AP (it
> is not
> covered by the spec at this time)
> 

ok, fair enough.

johannes
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