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

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On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 14:31 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> 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?

I don't know? Is it a limitation of the implementation? I know
practically nothing about mesh :-) It just didn't seem right to silently
ignore something.

johannes

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