From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Lukasz Kucharczyk <lukasz.kucharczyk@tieto.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] bind filters and multicast list to subif
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:38:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340116707.4482.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE08D6F.30105@tieto.com>
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 16:32 +0200, Lukasz Kucharczyk wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 01:45 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 12:57 +0200, Lukasz Kucharczyk wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Following patches enables configuring filters and multicast list for
> >> specific interface. That probably might be useful in implementation
> >> of multi-channel operation.
> >
> > "Might be useful"?
> >
> > I guess I can see that, but we need
> > a) driver updates
> > b) to keep a global filter setting for drivers that don't have
> > per-interface settings
> >
>
> Ok, so I will need indication from driver what it supports.
> Do you think adding single flag to ieee80211_hw_flags (like
> IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_IFCE_FILTERS) would be sufficient for that purpose?
I'm not sure that's needed? We'll have to maintain both a global and a
per-interface list anyway, so you could just add new per-interface
callbacks or so instead of changing the existing ones, and then the
driver can pick which ones it wants?
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-19 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-18 10:57 [RFC 0/5] bind filters and multicast list to subif Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-18 10:57 ` [RFC 1/5] mac80211: make filter configuration work per subif Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-18 10:57 ` [RFC 2/5] mac80211: bind FIF_* parameters to interface Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-18 10:57 ` [RFC 3/5] mac80211: bind driver's filter callback to subif Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-18 10:57 ` [RFC 4/5] mac80211: move multicast list " Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-18 10:57 ` [RFC 5/5] mac80211: bind prepare_multicast callback " Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-18 11:45 ` [RFC 0/5] bind filters and multicast list " Johannes Berg
2012-06-19 14:32 ` Lukasz Kucharczyk
2012-06-19 14:38 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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