Re: [RFC] mac80211: sets basic rate set parameter for IBSS creator

[Mohammed Shafi <mshajakhan@atheros.com>]

On Tuesday 28 September 2010 04:17 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:01 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
>
>    
>>>> +	if (ifibss->basic_rates == 0)
>>>> +		ifibss->basic_rates = ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local,
>>>> +					local->hw.conf.channel->band);
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Shouldn't cfg80211 do this?
>>>        
>    
>>                         Thank you for your suggestion,just found out ,i
>> think  its already there to configure basic rates (if the user had not
>> expicitly specified the basic rates in user space) in the
>> nl80211_join_ibss(nl80211.c) , but the basic rates does not seems to get
>> set there.I had checked its status in mac80211 in function
>> ieee80211_ibss_join function , its still zero and I thought of calling
>> it there itself , but the basic rate was not properly set for 2Ghz, so
>> called it here and  I had tested it ,and everything working fine.
>> Pleas correct me if I am wrong .
>>      
> Well, I still think cfg80211 should do this, and it looks like it will
> except when you use iwconfig. So are you using iw or iwconfig? If
> iwconfig latter, you need to fix the wext code in cfg80211, if the
> former you need to figure out where the information gets lost.
>
> johannes
>    
Sorry , I was using iwconfig and thanks for fixing it.

with regards ,

shafi