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Re: [RFC 0/5] bind filters and multicast list to subif

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On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 16:32 +0200, Lukasz Kucharczyk wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 01:45 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 12:57 +0200, Lukasz Kucharczyk wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Following patches enables configuring filters and multicast list for
> >> specific interface. That probably might be useful in implementation
> >> of multi-channel operation.
> >
> > "Might be useful"?
> >
> > I guess I can see that, but we need
> >   a) driver updates
> >   b) to keep a global filter setting for drivers that don't have
> >      per-interface settings
> >
> 
> Ok, so I will need indication from driver what it supports.
> Do you think adding single flag to ieee80211_hw_flags (like 
> IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_IFCE_FILTERS) would be sufficient for that purpose?

I'm not sure that's needed? We'll have to maintain both a global and a
per-interface list anyway, so you could just add new per-interface
callbacks or so instead of changing the existing ones, and then the
driver can pick which ones it wants?

johannes

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