On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:41 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2011-06-01 1:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:18 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > > > >> >> >> >> > I don't understand how you can rely on beacons for WDS. > > > >> Oh, right. I'll send a follow-up patch that forces a WDS to also have an > >> active AP interface before it's brought up. > > > > Hm, that might be sufficient, but what if the peer isn't sending > > beacons? > > > > Can't we add a station entry and then update it if we receive > > information from the peer? That'd be more compatible with others devices > > that don't necessarily have beacons with WDS, and then we wouldn't have > > to require it locally either (since realistically we might have to > > interoperate with those anyway?) > What other devices use WDS without beacons? So far I haven't seen any. I don't know, at least older mac80211 could do that? johannes -- 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
