From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:47447 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929AbcHZIOy (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2016 04:14:54 -0400 Message-ID: <1472199291.390.23.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20160826_101458_411417_7C2B47A2) Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Add support for user configurable beacon data rate From: Johannes Berg To: "Undekari, Sunil Dutt" , "Kushwaha, Purushottam" Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "Malinen, Jouni" , "Kondabattini, Ganesh" , "Kalikot Veetil, Mahesh Kumar" , "Hullur Subramanyam, Amarnath" , "Kumar, Deepak (QCA)" Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 10:14:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <17fc8f16b6184c2ba09146faefd2bc8c@aphydexm01f.ap.qualcomm.com> References: <1470371701-13074-1-git-send-email-pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com> <1470387784.2977.30.camel@sipsolutions.net> <92b06d4df5984e6ea91081126e096a96@aphydexm01f.ap.qualcomm.com> <1470513454.3374.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> <17fc8f16b6184c2ba09146faefd2bc8c@aphydexm01f.ap.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 12:30 +0000, Undekari, Sunil Dutt wrote: > > It also doesn't check that you specified exactly one rate, but it's > > not clear how else this would work? > I can think of the following options here .  > 1. Consider these rates as only the preference ( in order ) to the > host driver , but the User space would have no way of knowing what > the driver has selected. > 2. Limit this beacon rate to only one . cfg80211 to verify that there > is exactly one rate to be specified.  > > Is option 2 a viable option ? > Yeah, I think option 1 doesn't make much sense. johannes