[ath9k-devel] Bringing up a virtual wiphy on AR9160 brings down the node

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

Hi Jouni,

What can be achieved with mac80211 vifs?

What I want is to be able to instantiate virtual interfaces which will 
appear to the user any other physical interface and will have have 
different MAC addresses, it doesn't necessarily needs to do 
multi-channel operations. Currently for this I'm using the virtual whiphys.

Best Regards,
     Rodolphe Marques

On 07/06/2010 05:57 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:42 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
>
>    
>> We have a dedicated target for this, so we can quickly test patches or
>> diffent kernel versions.
>>      
> May I ask what are you trying to achieve with virtual wiphys? Are you
> trying to do multi-channel operations? If not, some other option may be
> more appropriate design.
>
>    
>> Does anyone know if virtual wiphys should work on the AR9160 ?
>>      
> I have not tested this in months, so cannot really say what the current
> state is. Anyway, please note that the virtual wiphy design is unlikely
> to be supported in the future. It was an experimental change and it
> seems likely that other designs (moving more of this into mac80211) are
> the way to go in the future. As such, I think the virtual wiphy design
> will be removed once mac80211 can handle multi-channel operations with
> concurrent virtual interfaces. For single-channel cases, mac80211 vifs
> should already be used instead of trying to get virtual wiphy design
> working in ath9k.
>
> - Jouni
>
>
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