From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
To: ext Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: disable 11a channels when regulatory changes if 11a is not supported
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:18:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290777492.15341.13.camel@chilepepper> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290777257.3531.22.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 14:14 +0100, ext Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 14:43 +0200, luciano.coelho@nokia.com wrote:
> > From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
> >
> > Instead of simply not scanning for the 11a channels when not supported by the
> > hardware, disable the channels in reg_notify. This centralizes the decision
> > on whether to scan 5GHz channel in one place and allows userspace to know
> > exactly which channels are in use.
>
> Why are you advertising them to start with though?
Because the driver support chips with and without 11a (namely wl1273 and
wl1271). When we register the channels with mac80211, we don't know
whether the chip supports 11a or not, so we need to decide at runtime.
--
Cheers,
Luca.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-26 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-26 12:43 [PATCH] wl12xx: disable 11a channels when regulatory changes if 11a is not supported luciano.coelho
2010-11-26 13:03 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-11-26 13:08 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-26 13:14 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-26 13:18 ` Luciano Coelho [this message]
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