From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFCv2 10/13] cfg80211: set initial monitor channel
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:57:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE80BD8.4090904@tieto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340290665.4489.33.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:14 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
>> Implements behaviour seen in mac80211. A running
>> monitor always has a channel - even before
>> .set_channel. This way we won't break current
>> behaviour.
>
> I'm a little doubtful about this. Currently, mac80211 will keep the
> channel if you set it on say wlan0, your monitor iface gets the same
> channel. Then if you remove wlan0, you still have the same channel, but
> it seems here this is different now? I'm not sure it matters much, but
> it's worth thinking about? Or am I totally misunderstanding this now?
Right. It's not the exact same behaviour. It only guarantees a channel
is always set in monitor mode. We could maybe set the last
monitor-mode-channel seen when starting up monitor-mode again. Would
that be okay?
--
Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Michal Kazior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-25 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-20 6:14 [RFCv2] respect channels in iface combinations Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 01/13] cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_stop_ap Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 02/13] cfg80211: .stop_ap when interface is going down Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 03/13] cfg80211: add channel tracking for AP and mesh Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 8:18 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 9:03 ` Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 9:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 04/13] cfg80211: track ibss fixed channel Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 05/13] cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_get_chan_state Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 8:19 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 9:11 ` Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 9:13 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 06/13] cfg80211: track monitor interfaces count Michal Kazior
2012-06-21 14:55 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 07/13] mac80211: refactor virtual monitor code Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 08/13] cfg80211: refuse to .set_monitor_channel when non-monitors are present Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 09/13] cfg80211: track monitor channel Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 10/13] cfg80211: set initial " Michal Kazior
2012-06-21 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-25 6:57 ` Michal Kazior [this message]
2012-06-25 7:28 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-25 7:40 ` Michal Kazior
2012-06-25 7:41 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 11/13] cfg80211/mac80211: remove .get_channel Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 12/13] cfg80211: add channel checking for iface combinations Michal Kazior
2012-06-21 15:03 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-25 7:00 ` Michal Kazior
2012-06-20 6:14 ` [RFCv2 13/13] cfg80211: respect iface combinations when starting operation Michal Kazior
2012-06-21 15:06 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-25 7:05 ` Michal Kazior
2012-06-25 7:27 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-20 8:23 ` [RFCv2] respect channels in iface combinations Johannes Berg
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4FE80BD8.4090904@tieto.com \
--to=michal.kazior@tieto.com \
--cc=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).