Re: iw station del broken?

[Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@siemens.com>]

Johannes Berg schrieb:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:05 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
>   
>> Johannes Berg schrieb:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:47 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> is it just me or is 'iw dev <devname> station del <MAC address>' broken?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> No ... we decided a while ago that station manipulation in mesh was too
>>> hard to support and removed it.
>>>
>>> What's the use case anyway?
>>>
>>> johannes
>>>   
>>>       
>> The use case is that, if I have some mesh points in a single room or one 
>> a small floor, I can simply give them a topology by removing the links 
>> between the STA, I do not wish to be directly connected.
>> Removing the links means 'iw dev <devname> set mesh_param 
>> mesh_auto_open_plinks 0', which blocks building up new peering links, 
>> and then removing some links with 'station del'.
>>     
>
> Can't you just do that before it gets discovered?
>
> I'm not really happy with the mesh API anyway ...
>
> johannes
>
>   
That makes any scripting impossible, because it would mean a fine timing 
between the ifup on the stations. Also I think you can't build complex 
topologies this way.
The alternative iw dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address> 
next_hop <next hop MAC address> is not useful (if it is still included 
though ^^) because it sets paths hard. Means that these paths are not 
changed, even if they are broken.

Well, you're the maintainer. Your choice.

By the way: which was the last version with 'station del' in mesh 
intact? Which codeparts would have to be exchanged if i'd like to use 
this further? Only iw and nl80211?