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 15:43:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269870232.4131.36.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB0ADFA.8010205@siemens.com>
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:41 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
> That makes any scripting impossible, because it would mean a fine timing
> between the ifup on the stations. Also I think you can't build complex
> topologies this way.
Hmm, you're probably right.
> The alternative iw dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address>
> next_hop <next hop MAC address> is not useful (if it is still included
> though ^^) because it sets paths hard. Means that these paths are not
> changed, even if they are broken.
>
> Well, you're the maintainer. Your choice.
>
> By the way: which was the last version with 'station del' in mesh
> intact? Which codeparts would have to be exchanged if i'd like to use
> this further? Only iw and nl80211?
Actually I think you only need to change a line in nl80211.c allowing
deleting; in fact deleting is OK (and thus I think we can put a patch in
adding it back) -- adding was the problem.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 13:43 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
2010-03-29 13:41 ` Marco Porsch
2010-03-29 13:43 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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