On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 23:56 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > Fun. How about it we just make wpa supplicant ignore FREQ/channel > >> > completely if it uses FREQ/frequency anyway? > >> > >> Can't because some drivers send channel and not frequency. Yeah, we > >> could fix all the drivers, but that doesn't help people running latest > >> supplicant on older kernels. > > > > Oh, good point. I guess the patch you posted is the only sane thing to > > do then, and require that drivers that work in the 5 GHz band send > > frequency (because there channel numbers need not be unique due to > > 802.11j's channelisation offset) > > > > Fix in the mac should go in as well in so it will work with older > supplicants and it doesn't really hurt. Yup. Both parts (mac80211 FREQ re-order, and supplicant patch) should be applied. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
