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

Johannes Berg
2008-08-07T17:12:10Z

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On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:07 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> This change adds a new cfg80211 command, NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS, to allow
> AP mode BSS parameters to be changed from user space (e.g., hostapd).
> The drivers using mac80211 are expected to be modified with separate
> changes to use the new BSS info parameter for short slot time in the
> bss_info_changed() handler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

> + /*
> + * TODO: IEEE80211_CONF_SHORT_SLOT_TIME will be removed once drivers
> + * have been converted to use bss_info_changed() for slot time
> + * configuration
> + */

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.

johannes

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