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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mac80211: do not actively scan DFS channels
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
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On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 18:13 +0800, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> DFS channels should not be actively scanned as we can't be sure
> if we are allowed or not.
> 
> If the current channel is in the DFS band, active scan might be
> performed after CSA, but we have no guarantee about other channels,
> therefore it is safer to prevent active scanning at all.
> 
Applied to mac80211.git, also added cc stable. I modified the code a
bit to be shorter :)

johannes