From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, andrey@cozybit.com,
Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>,
brian@cozybit.com, javier@cozybit.com, colin@cozybit.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] Implement ath9k mesh point operation
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:46:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237275967.18086.6.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BED464.2010904@erley.org> (sfid-20090316_233631_951441_68D057DC)
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On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:36 -0400, Pat Erley wrote:
> Currently, you need to trigger a scan on the mesh point interface to
> enable beaconing. This is the same behavior the ath5k, rt2500usb and
> rt61pci drivers exhibit. Is this a mac80211 design flaw, or something
> in all of these drivers?
It's mac80211. We never call ieee80211_if_config() when we enable a mesh
interface, and thus conf.enable_beacon with
IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED isn't ever set correctly.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-17 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 22:36 [rfc] Implement ath9k mesh point operation Pat Erley
2009-03-16 22:57 ` Andrey Yurovsky
2009-03-16 23:03 ` Pat Erley
2009-03-17 4:45 ` Pat Erley
2009-03-17 7:44 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-17 7:46 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-03-17 21:05 ` Andrey Yurovsky
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