[ath9k-devel] ath9k-deve: add / delete virtual wiphys through iw (nl80211)

[Rodolphe Marques <rodolphe.marques@ua.pt>]

Hi Jouni,

That means that from the OS perspective we would see only one interface 
and that the mac80211 would that care of multiple associations in order 
to improve overall throughput?

Best Regards,
     Rodolphe Marques

On 05/05/2010 03:21 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 02:28 -0700, "Lorna Gonz?lez" wrote:
>    
>> according to the nl80211_commands it is possible to add, get, set and delete wiphy using iw command like using debugfs ath9k/phy#/wiphy am I right? But I can?t use and don?t have this options in my supported commands (iw phy<name>  info).
>> Does any one knows what could be the reason?
>>      
> There is currently no support for managing virtual wiphys in nl80211 (or
> iw for that matter). The current design in ath9k is experimental and at
> this point, it does not look likely that it would be standardized via
> nl80211 in this way. In other words, it is more likely that the vif
> concept in mac80211 would get extended to support multi-channel
> operations which would eventually remove need for the virtual wiphy
> concept.
>
> - Jouni
>
>
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