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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] RFC: v3: Support multiple STA on same AP with ath9k
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:27:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c358124867aecc372764a1a7c56a3890@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8AA1C5.8080906@candelatech.com>


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:23:17 -0700, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
wrote:
> As for counting, as far as I can tell, ath9k doesn't keep a list of
> interfaces, but rather calls those iterator methods when it wants to
> know them, so one way or another I need to call back into mac80211.

But it can just call the atomic iterator with a callback that
keeps the count.

> I'll break the patches apart for the next posting.
> 
> Did you get a chance to think more about this part of the patch?

No, I didn't, and since I'm at the wireless summit now it
seems unlikely that I'll get to it before I get/go back
home on Monday (US time morning).

johannes

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>
Subject: Re: RFC:  v3: Support multiple STA on same AP with ath9k
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:27:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c358124867aecc372764a1a7c56a3890@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8AA1C5.8080906@candelatech.com>


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:23:17 -0700, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
wrote:
> As for counting, as far as I can tell, ath9k doesn't keep a list of
> interfaces, but rather calls those iterator methods when it wants to
> know them, so one way or another I need to call back into mac80211.

But it can just call the atomic iterator with a callback that
keeps the count.

> I'll break the patches apart for the next posting.
> 
> Did you get a chance to think more about this part of the patch?

No, I didn't, and since I'm at the wireless summit now it
seems unlikely that I'll get to it before I get/go back
home on Monday (US time morning).

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 20:07 [ath9k-devel] RFC: v3: Support multiple STA on same AP with ath9k Ben Greear
2010-09-10 20:07 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-10 21:12 ` [ath9k-devel] " Johannes Berg
2010-09-10 21:12   ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-10 21:23   ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2010-09-10 21:23     ` Ben Greear
2010-09-10 21:27     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-09-10 21:27       ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-13 12:14 ` [ath9k-devel] " Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-13 12:14   ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-13 14:36   ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2010-09-13 14:36     ` Ben Greear
2010-09-13 19:23   ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2010-09-13 19:23     ` Ben Greear
2010-09-14 13:46     ` [ath9k-devel] " Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-14 13:46       ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-14 14:39       ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2010-09-14 14:39         ` Ben Greear
2010-09-14 14:44         ` [ath9k-devel] " Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-14 14:44           ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan

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