From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg/nl/mac80211: use per-band basic rates bitmap in IBSS
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 08:34:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905063458.GA6029@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346788056.3737.44.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:47:36PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 21:45 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
>
> > > As far as I understand it, the basic rates that are passed into the
> > > kernel are intended to be used when the kernel creates a new IBSS. This
> > > always happens on the channel that is also passed in, so it's always
> > > bound to a given channel (band).
> >
> > I think basic rates are also used in case of merging, right? In this case we
> > could switch to another channel (and band).
>
> No, as I understand it we should in that case use the IBSS's existing
> basic rates, not our own.
mh..ok. At this point it doesn't make sense to really store all the bitmasks.
Will modify it.
Thank you
--
Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 18:52 [RFC] cfg/nl/mac80211: use per-band basic rates bitmap in IBSS Antonio Quartulli
2012-09-04 19:38 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-04 19:45 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-09-04 19:47 ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-05 6:34 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
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