From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> If it worked (Felix says it doesn't right now), the typical use-case for WDS interfaces would be to be slaved to AP mode interfaces. Therefore, it isn't necessary to set the channel on WDS interfaces. As they don't support powersave or anything like that, they also couldn't use a different channel anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 5 ++--- net/wireless/wext-compat.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c 2012-05-16 10:24:41.000000000 +0200 +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c 2012-05-16 10:24:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -1166,8 +1166,8 @@ static int parse_txq_params(struct nlatt static bool nl80211_can_set_dev_channel(struct wireless_dev *wdev) { /* - * You can only set the channel explicitly for AP, mesh - * and WDS type interfaces; all others have their channel + * You can only set the channel explicitly for AP and + * mesh type interfaces; all others have their channel * managed via their respective "establish a connection" * command (connect, join, ...) * @@ -1180,7 +1180,6 @@ static bool nl80211_can_set_dev_channel( */ return !wdev || wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP || - wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS || wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT || wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR || wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO; --- a/net/wireless/wext-compat.c 2012-05-16 10:22:21.000000000 +0200 +++ b/net/wireless/wext-compat.c 2012-05-16 10:24:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -796,7 +796,6 @@ static int cfg80211_wext_siwfreq(struct case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: return cfg80211_ibss_wext_siwfreq(dev, info, wextfreq, extra); case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR: - case NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS: case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: freq = cfg80211_wext_freq(wdev->wiphy, wextfreq); if (freq < 0) -- 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