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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Disable requests for new scans in AP mode

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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:07 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> NM only knows about devices that NM controls, thus we can't have NM set
> up the device and then subsequently ignore it...  However, at some point
> in the near future, if we can get reliable information as to whether the
> driver *does* in fact support AP mode, we can make NM drive the
> interface in AP mode instead of IBSS.  The only reason it's using IBSS
> right now is that the driver support for AP mode was so inconsistent and
> buggy.

Somebody (Intel, I think? Or MS?) has also been showing off
functionality like STA + IBSS (or AP) on one hardware. We totally should
beat them to the market with that :) Needs driver work, though.

johannes

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