On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 18:06 +0200, Goldenshtein, Victor wrote: > > So do we think that no safeguards here at all are acceptable? Not even > > checking that radar detection was enabled, CAC time expired, etc.? > > We can add a check whether dfs is supported by the driver > (rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_DFS). > > The nl/cfg/mac doesn't have the info whether the radar detection is > enabled and definitely doesn't heard about CAC time, on other hand the > driver which starts/handles radar detection know whether it started or > not. I'm just trying to make sure that you're OK with a simple two-line iw patch being sufficient to start transmitting on radar channels ... > I think the driver should perform this simple "sanity" checks, > otherwise we"ll need to save different DFS states in the mac, not sure > that this is what we want. I disagree -- adding this in each driver, which will surely end up with slightly different semantics, seems like a recipe for disaster. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
