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Re: [RFC 4/6] wifi: mac80211: support per-radio driver start/stop calls

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> On 23. Aug 2024, at 12:17, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2024-08-05 at 21:23 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> Radios are started/stopped based on the vif allowed radios. This allows
>> drivers to keep unused radios inactive.
> 
> Similar argument here, I'd think you don't need this with
> WANT_MONITOR_VIF. Is this really something we want? Why?

I want to keep radios shut down when no scan, roc or normal operation can happen on them (based on allowed radios mask).
Since radio enable/disable can take some time, I don’t want to toggle it for every single offchannel operation or implement timer bases hacks to work around it.

- Felix




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