From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:42470 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754620Ab0AQUOl (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:14:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add a callback for querying the operating frequency and export it through nl80211 From: Johannes Berg To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless , "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <4B536F21.1090509@openwrt.org> References: <4B536B05.6070301@openwrt.org> <1263758236.28067.11.camel@johannes.local> <1263758423.28067.12.camel@johannes.local> <4B536F21.1090509@openwrt.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+eAMdHrraPVFUmh87i4Y" Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:14:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1263759278.28067.13.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-+eAMdHrraPVFUmh87i4Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 21:12 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > > If you have an IBSS or managed mode then you know from the BSS info > what > > channel you should be on... APs are completely userspace controlled > > anyway, so are monitors. > I was thinking about scanning, but then again, that's not handled by > my patch series either. I'll simplify it and make it per-netdev. But scanning isn't really interesting, it might be firmware controlled or whatever. What do you need the whole thing for? Why export the channel at all? johannes --=-+eAMdHrraPVFUmh87i4Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLU2+nAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaK3UP/0/lZvNKC+AasJhhvsUJlb1L K82LUaFm15OnH7kjIeZcUuLMruGgMSQVn22HwdsXOH+bDY/sYsBo+jalBf4fv1bt b0XR9RJHWDY4Ng4vZHmKHR/9Ic8CmzNywSqyg++rq8KHRhLkwl8hqQN4AhJ3Er0F l2Aw1D3HCt+1D8P4lFtNacOlcBy9ZvLhLQjJTNeU0g6GMoHRO4DCbDRsOJLSGmjw KjiLnmC5Hc+02NYbBJ27BCL7sTkquRfb+Kp6NKQ/KnMVrjf6xHeaBCrLMNxvjZ5O 9qCJme5OO5AQDejcgHcNbMcEijgyG2rExYQVJdbXL4Q/PXUlmzP3I3YXIlyNLhVD +ad5HVOknksbamAnFn8zFnS5LXO1Pv35O2McK/NBQwAJktKVlVa0yke9bllOmqap 7+Dswf0lI3wy8T+xXu8Ci7kqcGhdEcej7TX/ba6oEwgpDuVOEnzZWbwNEqGt8XkG 0iFQXX0rAPEih21ArT/8cSfYK+gfgBDeMD5amL0sDxFpr20OZDUvi0knT9vha58R zceTBAmym/Jc4VKYUKCLmzYvMPTRjo5VWd8Gp+XI7PwQsKogEiBaZBHtDF58ZNzP wg6GOWULZLbeIJnZkA/qnRgyfd8dz47NjBerOpajNZdwksp5qjz+bYl8Bn64mDx5 zgcjwSYNqqs8Pv9FdAbE =afO+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+eAMdHrraPVFUmh87i4Y--