ieee80211_start_mesh() does this:
ieee80211_if_config(sdata, IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON |
IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED);
and it's called by ieee80211_open()
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:36 -0400, Pat Erley wrote:
>
>> Currently, you need to trigger a scan on the mesh point interface to
>> enable beaconing. This is the same behavior the ath5k, rt2500usb and
>> rt61pci drivers exhibit. Is this a mac80211 design flaw, or something
>> in all of these drivers?
>
> It's mac80211. We never call ieee80211_if_config() when we enable a mesh
> interface, and thus conf.enable_beacon with
> IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED isn't ever set correctly.
>
> johannes
>
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cozybit Inc.
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