From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] AP mode channel setting simplification
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:07:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120516170733.GE3508@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120511083413.778117363@sipsolutions.net>
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:34:13AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Ath6kl stores the channel, while mac80211 tries to
> immediately apply it. The latter isn't great for
> multi-channel.
>
> Change cfg80211 to store the channel, and give it
> to the driver (mac80211, ath6kl, etc.) only in the
> start_ap() function.
>
> This simplifies ath6kl a lot, and while it doesn't
> make a difference to mac80211 today I think it'll
> make it simpler to implement multi-channel.
>
> johannes
I had some trouble with applying at least 1/3, so I skipped this
batch as well.
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-16 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-11 8:34 [PATCH 0/3] AP mode channel setting simplification Johannes Berg
2012-05-11 8:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: move ieee80211_set_channel function Johannes Berg
2012-05-11 8:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] cfg80211: simplify cfg80211_can_beacon_sec_chan API Johannes Berg
2012-05-11 8:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: provide channel to start_ap function Johannes Berg
2012-05-14 6:16 ` Kalle Valo
2012-05-16 17:07 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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