On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:52:02PM +0530, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2011-01-14 7:13 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:19:38PM +0530, Felix Fietkau wrote: > >> On 2011-01-13 5:35 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote: > >> > Instead of setting opmde as AP for WDS, it is better to handle WDS > >> > case in ath9k_hw. > >> Why? Right now I don't even see any NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS handling in > >> ath9k_hw, and I can't think of anything that should be handled > >> differently in ath9k_hw compared to the AP opmode. > > For WDS station, what should be the interface type? Forgive if I'm wrong. > There is no WDS station opmode. 'WDS station' is a regular station > interface with 4-addr mode enabled. It needs no special handling in ath9k. still not convinced. Then what is the point mac80211 is informing about WDS type to drivers. mac itself can pass it as AP type like what it is doing for p2p GO. -- Rajkumar -- 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
