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Re: [PATCH 8/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace make meshif mesh gate

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:45 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> From: Javier Cardona <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Allow userspace to set NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS attribute,
>> which will advertise this mesh node as being a mesh gate.
>> NL80211_HWMP_ROOTMODE must be set or this will do nothing.
>
> IMHO it should be rejected instead of doing nothing.
>
Maybe the "right thing" to do is not require the user to know anything
about the limitations of our implementation, and instead just enable
root mode as needed?
> johannes
>
>
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