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Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add channel flag to prohibit OFDM operation

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On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 15:58 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Currently the only way for wireless drivers to tell whether or not OFDM
> is allowed on the current channel is to check the regulatory
> information. However, this requires hodling cfg80211_mutex, which is not
> visible to the drivers.
> 
> Other regulatory restrictions are provided as flags in the channel
> definition, so let's do similarly with OFDM. This patch adds a new flag,
> IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_OFDM, to tell drivers that OFDM on a channel is not
> allowed. This flag is set on any channels for which regulatory indicates
> that OFDM is prohibited.

Looks good, this needs to go into 3.6, right?

johannes

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