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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211:  Allow scanning single channel if other VIF is associated.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:18:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285687120.3885.20.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA206F0.40607@candelatech.com>

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 08:17 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> > You can run all networks in a single wpa_s instance, I believe, and then
> > it'd know about all this, right?
> 
> But then, if you want to add an additional interface, you have to restart
> everything.

Well, you can add it dynamically over dbus or the unix socket control
interface.

> I was thinking that maybe I could keep the logic in wpa_s, but instead of
> all the special casing, just locate the current associated channel for the
> phy in question and populate the scan-req with that single channel.
> 
> Then, I think I wouldn't have to muck with much of the scan logic..just
> a bit of code on the entry point to select the proper channel.
> 
> Does that sound like a possible solution to you?

I don't care all that much, but I really don't like the in-kernel
workaround. For that, you'd have to iterate over "iw <wlanX> link" I
suppose.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-28 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  0:07 [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: Check for identical channels when changing channels greearb
2010-09-28  0:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Allow scanning single channel if other VIF is associated greearb
2010-09-28  7:22   ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-28 13:50     ` Ben Greear
2010-09-28 13:57       ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-28 15:17         ` Ben Greear
2010-09-28 15:18           ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-09-29  5:48           ` Jouni Malinen
2010-09-29 15:27             ` Ben Greear
2010-09-28  8:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: Check for identical channels when changing channels Felix Fietkau
2010-09-28 13:37   ` Ben Greear
2010-09-28 14:05     ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-28 15:22       ` Ben Greear

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