Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Enable sw scan with chan context

[Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:25 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 20:51 +0530, Mahesh Palivela wrote:
> 
> > I tested this patch. scan works. 
> 
> Works how? It never tells the driver to go to a different channel ...

sorry. I missed this. But my patch takes care of crash in mac80211 once
we remove 'use_chanctx' check in sw_scan function.

> 
> Besides, telling the driver to go to one channel via the hw_config call,
> and using chanctx for vif configuration seems like a really bad idea.
> 

Agree.

> > Anyways chan context is a WIP.
> 
> It pretty much works.

For AP mode yes it works. But for STA mode, we have work I guess.

> 
> > There is no driver which is using the chan ctx work yet.
> 
> There is, our mvm driver uses it.
> 

Thanks for the info. I will take a look.

> > I will continue adding code for chan ctx.
> 
> What are you trying to achieve anyway?
> 

VHT assoc. To enable VHT on both AP and STA. For VHT to work we need
chan_ctx. Isn't it?


> johannes
>