Johannes Berg wrote:
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 09:01 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
Hmm.. Yeah we need to now, sort of. FullMAC drivers could suffer, but we
could drop connections upon CSA in mac80211 for the time being.
cfg80211 could provide:
* cfg80211_sta_can_switch_chan
* cfg80211_sta_ch_switch_notify
mac80211 could then be able to know whether num_different_channels has
been reached (cfg80211_sta_can_switch_chan) and eventually notify upon
channel switch (cfg80211_sta_ch_switch_notify).
Channel switch would happen if either:
* cfg80211_sta_can_switch_chan is true
* channel context for target CSA channel already exists
I'm just unsure about the current_bss thing - whether we should e.g.
initiate a scan to update it, or can we shamelessly update the channel
in the structure directly?
Today mac80211 just updates it, yeah.
Should I send the ,,respect channels in iface combinations'' as a
[PATCH] now, or should the CSA issue (in cfg80211) be addressed first?
Good question. Even if we don't do CSA first, I guess we don't really
break anything right now, do we? And if the driver/mac80211 just changes
the channel, that means it could seem to go over the limit of 1 channel
but things just break down like they do today?
Yeah, probably. We might end up in a funny state (e.g. rejecting some
actions which would otherwise be possible) after doing CSA until we
disconnect.
I guess I'd like to have the CSA stuff addressed, but it seems we
haven't really closed on the best way yet, and I don't want to hold off
your work for it for too long?
If you're okay with that then I'll just send out the [PATCH].
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Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Michal Kazior.
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