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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: make CQM RSSI support per virtual interface

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On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 19:36 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:29, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Similar to the previous beacon filtering patch,
> > make CQM RSSI support depend on the flags that
> > the driver set for virtual interfaces.
> 
> Up until now we circumvented the issue by having mode specific HW
> flags (e.g. IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS). Usually the mode of the FW
> determines the HW capabilities and this is enough.
> It also has the advantages of only touching mode-specific code-paths.
> 
> Since this is a STA-mode only flag I assume this is something for
> multi-role (multiple stations)?

Yes. I don't know how your multi-role support works, but I'm not really
comfortable with changing the HW flags on the fly (it will work for
these, but not really for many others I think).

johannes

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