From: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] o80211s: (nl80211) support for mesh interfaces and set_mesh_cfg command
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:47:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194896861.6980.28.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194687275.7258.36.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 10:34 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> So if I bring up a mesh interface and don't use SET_MESH_CFG, it won't
> operate at all?
Yes it would, it would use the wild card, zero-length mesh ID.
> I think I'd prefer if the MESH_ID attribute would be given as part of
> SET_INTERFACE/NEW_INTERFACE instead of a new command. I'm attempting to
> keep nl80211 as object oriented as possible and this single command
> doesn't really fit the picture.
Will that be the way to specify the SSID for the STA interfaces? If so,
I agree it would be better to use that command instead of an additional
mesh specific command. As by now it's just used to set the interface
type I was not sure it was appropriate to add the mesh configuration
there.
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Luis Carlos Cobo Rus GnuPG ID: 44019B60
cozybit Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 23:02 [PATCH 2/4] o80211s: (nl80211) support for mesh interfaces and set_mesh_cfg command Luis Carlos Cobo
2007-11-10 9:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-12 19:47 ` Luis Carlos Cobo [this message]
2007-11-13 13:12 ` Johannes Berg
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