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Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: config hw when going back on-channel

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On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 06:27 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 05:14 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:18 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >> On 07/25/2011 08:29 AM, Eliad Peller wrote:
> >>> The hw is currently not configured when going
> >>> back on-channel.
> >>
> >> I am less sure about this patch.  With the existing code,
> >> I think it should catch going from on channel to off
> >> and do the hw config properly.
> >>
> >> With your change it will also reconfig the hardware, but it will
> >> reconfig even if we were already on-channel (if, for instance,
> >> local->tmp_channel is oper-channel), right?
> >
> > I think even if we're already on the same channel, we might still have
> > the off-channel flag (IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL) set? So the patch might
> > still be needed to clear that?
> 
> Well, maybe so, but if we are not off-channel and still have the off-channel
> flag set, that would seem to be another bug.

Hm, true. Not sure about this then.

johannes

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