From: "Michał Kazior" <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 11/12] mac80211: split offchannel functions to per-vif
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:15:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6C3F32.7040700@tieto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332492804.3506.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Johannes Berg wrote:
> This seems very odd. Why would one vif be off-channel, and the other be
> on-channel? That makes no sense, off-channel is a global state.
Should mac80211 care if the device does channel-hopping? What if it's
possible for off-channel to be done simultaneously because the device
has two radios?
Maybe off-channel should also be reworked more to support multiple
scenarios?
> My thinking here right now is that mac80211-based off-channel and
> scanning will only be supported for devices that don't implement
> multi-channel, since all others really need to do the channel scheduling
> themselves.
Software off-channel isn't used only for scanning, or is it?
-- Pozdrawiam / Best Regards, Michal Kazior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-23 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-19 12:11 [RFC 11/12] mac80211: split offchannel functions to per-vif Michal Kazior
2012-03-23 8:53 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-23 9:15 ` Michał Kazior [this message]
2012-03-23 9:20 ` Johannes Berg
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