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Re: [RFC] mac80211: add explicit AP/GO driver operations

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> what about other direct notification of BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED
>> (like in offchannel and ieee80211_do_stop)? should we call
>> start_ap/stop_ap there as well?
>
> The one in do_stop() should probably just be cleaned up, cfg80211 will
> now stop the AP operation while the interface goes down ... so that
> won't actually do anything, but could be a concern for the old API
> because it might cause an off/off transition.
>
cool.

> For offchannel, I'm not sure. Does it really make sense to call it
> there? I can do it, I suppose, but ... hmm. The software-offchannel
> hopefully won't actually be needed much longer given channel
> contexts ;-)
:)
i guess skipping these calls on software-offchannel transitions is
reasonable, but it's worth documenting it (as it's different from
BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED notifications).

Eliad.
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