From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>,
Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] nl80211/cfg80211: enable DFS for IBSS mode
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:48:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381304913.14186.3.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381164067-4830-2-git-send-email-siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 18:41 +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> To use DFS in IBSS mode, userspace is required to react to radar events.
> It can inform nl80211 that it is capable of doing so by adding a
> NL80211_ATTR_DFS_CAPABLE attribute when joining the IBSS.
>
> This attribute is supplied to let the kernelspace know that the
> userspace application can and will handle radar events, e.g. by
> intiating channel switches to a valid channel. DFS channels may
> only be used if this attribute is supplied and the driver supports
> it. Driver support will be checked even if a channel without DFS
> will be initially joined, as a DFS channel may be chosen later.
Applied, fixed the attribute name above.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-07 16:41 [PATCHv2 0/3] add IBSS-DFS support Simon Wunderlich
2013-10-07 16:41 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] nl80211/cfg80211: enable DFS for IBSS mode Simon Wunderlich
2013-10-09 7:48 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-10-07 16:41 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] mac80211: " Simon Wunderlich
2013-10-09 8:03 ` Johannes Berg
2013-10-07 16:41 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] ath9k: " Simon Wunderlich
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