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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mac80211] mac80211:  Support multiple VIFS per AP in debugfs.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:42:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98E05B.8050609@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285086618.12764.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

On 09/21/2010 09:30 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 09:25 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>>> -	snprintf(mac, sizeof(mac), "%pM", sta->sta.addr);
>>> +	snprintf(mac, sizeof(mac), "%pM-%s",
>>> +		 sta->sta.addr, sta->sdata->name);
>>>
>>>    	/*
>>>    	 * This might fail due to a race condition:
>>
>> I got to thinking:  Is there any reason to put the sta.addr in there?
>>
>> Maybe just use sta->sdata->name?  Seems it might be easier for
>> scripts to deal with?
>
> APs have many STAs

So, when in STA mode, sta_info are related to local VIFs, but
in AP mode, they represent the remote wireless devices, with sdata pointing
to the local AP interface?

Thanks,
Ben

>
> johannes


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 12:15 [mac80211] mac80211: Support multiple VIFS per AP in debugfs greearb
2010-09-21 16:25 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-21 16:30   ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 16:42     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2010-09-21 17:03       ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 17:49         ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 18:02           ` Ben Greear
2010-09-22 16:59           ` Ben Greear
2010-09-22 17:01             ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-22 17:34               ` Ben Greear
2010-09-22 18:31                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-22 18:48                   ` John W. Linville
2010-09-22 19:45                     ` Ben Greear
2010-09-23  8:30                       ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-23 13:12                         ` Ben Greear
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-23  3:29 greearb
2010-09-23  8:36 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-16 19:00   ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-18 20:05     ` Ben Greear
     [not found]     ` <4CDAF182.4030409@candelatech.com>
2010-11-10 20:01       ` Christian Lamparter
2010-09-21  4:21 greearb
2010-09-21  6:48 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 12:04   ` Ben Greear

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