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Re: [RFC 4/9] mac80211: add ability to enable TX on op-channel

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Goldenshtein, Victor <victorg@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 1/26/2012 4:37 AM, Victor Goldenshtein wrote:
>>>
>>> Prior starting tx on DFS channels, the DFS master
>>> device shall perform a Channel Availability Check
>>> to ensure that there is no radar interference on
>>> those channels. Once CAC done, the tx can be
>>> enabled with ieee80211_dfs_en_tx().
>>
>>
>> How do you expect this to be used by the device? It seems that it should
>> have the side effect of lifting some TX-prohibited flag instead?
>
> In wl12xx driver we starting the AP role, and clearing FLAG_DFS_CAC_IN_PROGRESS.
> Maybe the function name is misleading here ? maybe we should rename it
> to something like resume_dfs_cac() - because it is called at the end
> of the CAC test.
>
> The other question is whether we want to add DFS flags into mac? I
> mean something like FLAG_DFS_CAC_IN_PROGRESS.

How about that and a CAC timer as sanity checks to cfg80211, not mac80211.

  Luis
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