From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@siemens.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iw station del broken?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:09:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269868155.4131.29.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB0A5B1.9090003@siemens.com>
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:05 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
> Johannes Berg schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:47 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> is it just me or is 'iw dev <devname> station del <MAC address>' broken?
> >>
> >
> > No ... we decided a while ago that station manipulation in mesh was too
> > hard to support and removed it.
> >
> > What's the use case anyway?
> >
> > johannes
> >
> The use case is that, if I have some mesh points in a single room or one
> a small floor, I can simply give them a topology by removing the links
> between the STA, I do not wish to be directly connected.
> Removing the links means 'iw dev <devname> set mesh_param
> mesh_auto_open_plinks 0', which blocks building up new peering links,
> and then removing some links with 'station del'.
Can't you just do that before it gets discovered?
I'm not really happy with the mesh API anyway ...
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 12:47 iw station del broken? Marco Porsch
2010-03-29 12:58 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-29 13:05 ` Marco Porsch
2010-03-29 13:09 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-03-29 13:41 ` Marco Porsch
2010-03-29 13:43 ` Johannes Berg
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