From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] mac80211: use chanctx reservation for AP CSA
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:53:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400838810.4358.23.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQmdLub9wRb03_M5bcFn5ruMcj8k-p-ELWBu516Gh14+sQ@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20140523_113522_303347_B81D0F77)
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 11:35 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> > The thing is, I don't see that template based drivers would be able to
> > stop beaconing :-)
> >
> > This whole design that requires it seems a bit fishy to start with, so I
> > can't really imagine anyone writing firmware that supports it. That
> > said, ours only supports a single beacon at a time anyway, so we'll
> > switch immediately and don't have to do that anyway.
>
> What if you have AP+STA and STA switches too? It might delay your AP
> interface switch, no? We could assume userspace always requests us to
> do The Right Thing, but should we trust it so much?
Most of the time we'd probably have a spare channel context anyway, so
it's not that big of a deal.
If we don't, well, I guess we might have to disconnect the STA or
something.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-22 14:07 [PATCH v6 0/6] cfg/mac80211: implement multi-vif csa Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] mac80211: introduce switch_vif_chanctx op Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:45 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 2:38 ` [PATCH] mac80211: add a single-transaction driver op to switch contexts Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 2:49 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 7:51 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:01 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:58 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:14 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:52 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 11:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 11:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: use switch_vif_chanctx to change a running chanctx Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 11:35 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 13:28 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 13:31 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 13:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add a single-transaction driver op to switch contexts Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 13:30 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 9:16 ` [PATCH] " Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:26 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 6:09 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] mac80211: introduce switch_vif_chanctx op Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:10 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:31 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:51 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 6:16 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 12:23 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 13:14 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] mac80211: make check_combinations() aware of chanctx reservation Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] mac80211: use chanctx reservation for AP CSA Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 6:49 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:44 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 8:58 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:07 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:35 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:53 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] mac80211: use chanctx reservation for STA CSA Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] cfg80211: remove channel_switch combination check Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 7:04 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:53 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:11 ` Michal Kazior
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