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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing config_hw() in ieee80211_ibss_join?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:45:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D470359.6050902@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296499385.3812.40.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

On 01/31/2011 10:43 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:29 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>> The method ieee80211_ibss_join can change the operating channel,
>> but I don't see anywhere that it calls config_hw to flush the
>> changes into the kernel.
>>
>> Should we add such a call?
>
> I don't think so -- it doesn't actually really join until it has scanned
> first etc.?

Ok, good enough for me.  I don't think this will cause any problems
with my scan-on-channel logic, but it looked a bit strange while
I was auditing the oper-channel related code.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-31 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31 18:29 Missing config_hw() in ieee80211_ibss_join? Ben Greear
2011-01-31 18:43 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-31 18:45   ` Ben Greear [this message]

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