From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Lior David <liord@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Dedy Lansky <dlansky@codeaurora.org>,
Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>,
Hamad Kadmany <qca_hkadmany@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:39:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1454513999.3083.7.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B1C740.9020604@codeaurora.org>
On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 11:24 +0200, Lior David wrote:
>
> On 2/2/2016 5:10 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> ......
> > Actually, one more question: Why does the kernel have to know at
> > *connect* time that it should be a PBSS? It could tell that from
> > the
> > scan results, by looking for PBSS if it can't find AP in there, no?
> >
> Yes it can be implemented that way. However we wanted user space to
> be able
> to specify exactly whether to connect to an AP or PCP. Since PBSS is
> a separate
> network type and we don't want clients to get an unexpected
> connection to
> a PCP. We also don't want to support roaming between a PCP and AP (it
> is not
> covered by the spec at this time)
>
ok, fair enough.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-03 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-13 9:04 [PATCH] cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type Lior David
2016-01-26 11:22 ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-26 12:34 ` Lior David
2016-01-26 12:54 ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-28 8:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Lior David
2016-02-02 15:09 ` Johannes Berg
2016-02-02 15:10 ` Johannes Berg
2016-02-03 9:24 ` Lior David
2016-02-03 15:39 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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