On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:48:51PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2011-06-01 2:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > >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? > In older mac80211 (at least the versions that I tested), WDS was > completely broken. It also created the station entry without any > valid rates, and it had no means of updating the supported rates > list. Is this settled? Do we want these patches? -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
