On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:06 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > You've got to be kidding? Runtime cost of this is negligible, we only > > execute the test when we switch channels which happens very > > infrequently. > > Well considering P2P technologies slowly blooming I would disagree > that channel changes are going to be infrequent. Then we also have > scanning which can happen any time you move away from your AP and at a > specific interval. Are we going to remove the capability to use each > channel as cached value and always ask cfg80211 it we can move on? They're still going to be infrequent, you're not going to switch channels (in mac80211) for every other packet :-) Even if you were to do channel switching every couple of seconds, which is really unlikely and will kill all performance, the calculation overhead wouldn't matter. johannes -- 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
