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Re: [RFC 3/9] nl80211/cfg80211: add ability to enable TX on op-channel

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Zefir Kurtisi and myself thought to rename the start_radar detection +
en_tx functions to something like
dfs_start_cac() and dfs_resume_cac(), these two will set/reset
WIPHY_FLAG_DFS_CAC_IN_PROGRESS flag, which should add some additional
protection.
Are you OK with this ?


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Thanks,
Victor.
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