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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mac80211: add tracking of temporary offchannel sdata
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:02:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336636975.4334.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAB74FD.7080004@tieto.com>

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:57 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:

> >>   	/* Temporary remain-on-channel for off-channel operations */
> >> +	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *tmp_sdata;
> >>   	struct ieee80211_channel *tmp_channel;
> >>   	enum nl80211_channel_type tmp_channel_type;
> >
> > Do you actually need this? I'm still tempted to not worry about any of
> > this and force drivers to implement remain-on-channel in the driver or
> > device for multi-channel, and this temporary thing is only used for
> > remain-on-channel operations now.
> 
> No I don't. But if it's not done we break the whole thing (sw 
> offchannel/scan) with my next patch. We might as well just remove all 
> the sw offchannel/scan code.
> 
> How many drivers are there that still depend on sw offchannel? Can we 
> just go ahead and break them?

Unfortunately we can't, a lot of them require it for P2P.

I guess I need to look at this in more detail.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10  6:44 [RFC/PATCH] multi-channel preparation work Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 1/7] mac80211: add tracking of temporary offchannel sdata Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  7:26   ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-10  7:57     ` Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  8:02       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 2/7] mac80211: split channel logic from hw_config Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 3/7] mac80211: refactor ieee80211_set_channel_type Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 4/7] mac80211: introduce ieee80211_oper_channel_type Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 5/7] cfg80211: extend get_channel to take wdev argument Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  7:29   ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-10  9:05     ` Michal Kazior
2012-05-10 10:57       ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 6/7] mac80211: remove _oper_channel_type Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  6:44 ` [PATCH 7/7] mac80211: move oper_channel to sdata Michal Kazior
2012-05-10  7:31   ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-10  8:59     ` Michal Kazior
2012-05-11 12:11 ` [RFC/PATCH] multi-channel preparation work Johannes Berg
2012-05-11 12:39   ` Johannes Berg

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