From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alexander Simon <alexander.simon@saxnet.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mac80211: ibss.c, missing regdom check?
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:03:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312808606.4372.16.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311695709.2974.15.camel@alex-2> (sfid-20110726_175519_489971_026C9E8B)
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:55 +0200, Alexander Simon wrote:
> When we want to join an IBSS, we first fire a scan. When a network is
> found, then we join it.
> This happens in ieee80211_sta_find_ibss when we call
> ieee80211_sta_join_ibss.
>
> But in both functions there is no check if we are allowed to do IBSS on
> that channel.
> Is this intended?
> I could join an existing network on channel 8 with a modified crda
> having the NO-IBSS flag on all 2.4GHz channels.
Sounds like there ought to be a check -- but what do we do in that case?
Just create the network elsewhere and hope the other one merges? Luis?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-08 13:03 UTC|newest]
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2011-07-26 15:55 mac80211: ibss.c, missing regdom check? Alexander Simon
2011-08-08 13:03 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-08-10 0:01 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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