From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add a callback for querying the operating frequency and export it through nl80211
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:03:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B537B30.1060303@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B537A94.9070807@openwrt.org>
On 2010-01-17 10:01 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2010-01-17 9:48 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 21:23 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>
>>> I want to be able to have some status info without having to go
>>> through
>>> hostapd or wpa_supplicant to get it. Currently the channel is exported
>>> by wext, but not nl80211, so I want to fix that.
>>
>> But like I said, you already have that information in the relevant
>> cases. hostapd you can just look in the config file for it...
> Nope, hostapd can deviate from the config, e.g. in the HT40 case. It'll
> switch primary and secondary channel, if necessary, or switch from HT40
> to HT20 entirely if there are overlapping BSSs. And what about STA mode?
> The channel won't be in the config in that case.
Sorry, overlooked the part about STA mode in the last email, but for AP
mode it's still valid, IMHO.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 19:54 [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add a callback for querying the operating frequency and export it through nl80211 Felix Fietkau
2010-01-17 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: implement the callback for querying the operating frequency Felix Fietkau
2010-01-17 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add a callback for querying the operating frequency and export it through nl80211 Johannes Berg
2010-01-17 20:00 ` Johannes Berg
2010-01-17 20:12 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-01-17 20:14 ` Johannes Berg
2010-01-17 20:23 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-01-17 20:48 ` Johannes Berg
2010-01-17 21:01 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-01-17 21:03 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2010-01-17 21:05 ` Johannes Berg
2010-01-19 17:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-01-20 7:32 ` Holger Schurig
2010-01-20 9:49 ` Johannes Berg
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