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Re: [PATCH 1/7] mac80211: add tracking of temporary offchannel sdata

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On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:57 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:

> >>   	/* Temporary remain-on-channel for off-channel operations */
> >> +	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *tmp_sdata;
> >>   	struct ieee80211_channel *tmp_channel;
> >>   	enum nl80211_channel_type tmp_channel_type;
> >
> > Do you actually need this? I'm still tempted to not worry about any of
> > this and force drivers to implement remain-on-channel in the driver or
> > device for multi-channel, and this temporary thing is only used for
> > remain-on-channel operations now.
> 
> No I don't. But if it's not done we break the whole thing (sw 
> offchannel/scan) with my next patch. We might as well just remove all 
> the sw offchannel/scan code.
> 
> How many drivers are there that still depend on sw offchannel? Can we 
> just go ahead and break them?

Unfortunately we can't, a lot of them require it for P2P.

I guess I need to look at this in more detail.

johannes

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