From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>,
linux-wirelss <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
open80211s <devel@lists.open80211s.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/12] mac80211: track and share mesh BSSes among interfaces
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 16:22:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367936535.8328.56.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130507140835.GD1438@localhost> (sfid-20130507_160953_266299_87301F8E)
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 10:08 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Ok this is big ... Let me tackle it patch by patch I guess :-)
> >
> > > +struct mesh_local_bss {
> >
> > > + bool can_share;
> >
> > Does that even make sense? I mean, wouldn't you simply not link/create
> > such an entry if the given vif can't share?
>
> We could do that, but as written mpath table now wants an mbss pointer
> in either case. Seemed more straight-forward to just always require
> it even though the structures are kind of pointless for unshared vifs.
But why even add it to the global list if you only need it locally?
Anyway I guess it doesn't matter, just seemed a bit odd.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-07 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-03 2:33 [RFC 00/12] MBSS sharing across multiple interfaces Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 01/12] mac80211: track and share mesh BSSes among interfaces Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-07 13:37 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-07 14:08 ` Bob Copeland
2013-05-07 14:22 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-05-07 15:55 ` Bob Copeland
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 02/12] mac80211: mesh: add function to tx on all other mbss ifaces Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 03/12] mac80211: use all MBSS interfaces for path selection Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-07 13:40 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-07 14:11 ` Bob Copeland
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 04/12] mac80211: assign outgoing interface with nexthop Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 05/12] mac80211: forward frames on correct mbss-shared interface Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 06/12] mac80211: notify bridge when leaving mesh Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-07 13:42 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-22 1:09 ` Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-24 20:32 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-28 17:01 ` Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-29 16:11 ` Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 07/12] mac80211: make RMC per-mbss Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 08/12] mac80211: forward group frames on mbss-shared interfaces Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:33 ` [RFC 09/12] mac80211: add shared-mbss transmit path Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:34 ` [RFC 10/12] mac08211: add shared-mbss receive path handling Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:34 ` [RFC 11/12] {nl,mac}80211: specify MBSS sharing on/off Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 2:34 ` [RFC 12/12] {nl,mac}80211: allow mpath dump to span local MBSS Thomas Pedersen
2013-05-03 13:25 ` [RFC 00/12] MBSS sharing across multiple interfaces Chaoxing Lin
[not found] ` <CAEFj987wqVTmN1eCCfqm2M16p5j8JtOn5AcKE0fETmsn+FyENg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-03 14:07 ` Chaoxing Lin
2013-05-03 14:35 ` Bob Copeland
[not found] ` <CAEFj986Avr_C5Hm4uRs0oP2ZRa-jnn6eRCJH71jkehcCuQ7iGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-03 15:41 ` Bob Copeland
2013-05-07 13:44 ` Johannes Berg
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