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Re: [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: add DFS related channel flags

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On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:40:36 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:31 +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > Before a radar channel can be used, a full CAC has be done, the
> > IEEE80211_CHAN_RADAR_CLEAR flags indicates that this has been done.
> > If either during CAC or in-service monitoring interference is
> > detected, the channel is added to NOL and marked with
> > IEEE80211_CHAN_RADAR_INTERFERENCE.
> 
> I'm not sure about this -- shouldn't that be global information? If
> one device in the system records a radar on the channel, it surely
> applies to other devices as well, even if they are hot-plugged after
> the radar was found?

True, I've based this on our IRC discussions, the consensus there was to 
do it per-wiphy only at first.

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