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Re: [RFC 9/9] mac80211: add DFS support to monitor interface

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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Christian Lamparter
<chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey, that's great!
>
> I have one question: Wasn't the monitor interface [for AP mode] being
> rendered obsolete by Johannes cfg80211-internal-ap-mlme work? If so,
> then we could save us the work here, right?

Yep, you're right.

> BTW, what about cfg80211_can_beacon_sec_chan in net/wireless/chan.c?
> I think it needs to be updated or else we can't have HT40 [secondary
> channels] on frequencies which require DFS.

DFS is not supported with HT40 in this initial release, updating the
cfg80211_can_beacon_sec_chan is not enough, we should also check that
there is no radar interference on the secondary channel (if it's a
radar channel).

-- 
Thanks,
Victor.
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