Re: mac80211/cfg80211: Add BSS configuration options for AP mode

Johannes Berg
2008-08-07T17:34:50Z

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On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:17 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:11:33PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> > I guess we'll also need to make the mlme code actually use it, as it
> > stands it looks like we never enable short slot. Oh well, later.
>
> Yes.. I tried applying your patch
> (013-BROKEN-mac80211-bss-slot-time.patch) for this and the results were
> enough to convince me that I do not want to do it today as part of the
> AP mode patch ;-):

Heh, yes, I know, never bothered to save it from bitrotting.

> I did not look into details at how much work would be needed to make
> this apply cleanly, but I would expect this to be relatively simple
> change.

Oh, you probably don't want to even try to apply this patch, I think the
code it was against has changed. If someone was to try to add the
appropriate short slot handling for the mlme, it'd be easier to just
implement it based on the new hooks your patch added.

johannes

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