From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: create a STA entry for a WDS interface after receiving a beacon
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:48:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE63533.9090709@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306931187.3867.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 2011-06-01 2:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:41 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2011-06-01 1:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:18 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> >
>> >> >> >> >> > I don't understand how you can rely on beacons for WDS.
>> >
>> >> Oh, right. I'll send a follow-up patch that forces a WDS to also have an
>> >> active AP interface before it's brought up.
>> >
>> > Hm, that might be sufficient, but what if the peer isn't sending
>> > beacons?
>> >
>> > Can't we add a station entry and then update it if we receive
>> > information from the peer? That'd be more compatible with others devices
>> > that don't necessarily have beacons with WDS, and then we wouldn't have
>> > to require it locally either (since realistically we might have to
>> > interoperate with those anyway?)
>> What other devices use WDS without beacons? So far I haven't seen any.
>
> I don't know, at least older mac80211 could do that?
In older mac80211 (at least the versions that I tested), WDS was
completely broken. It also created the station entry without any valid
rates, and it had no means of updating the supported rates list.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-01 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-31 19:16 [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: remove the useless WLAN_STA_WDS station flag Felix Fietkau
2011-05-31 19:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: create a STA entry for a WDS interface after receiving a beacon Felix Fietkau
2011-05-31 19:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: receive action frames for WDS interfaces Felix Fietkau
2011-05-31 19:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: create a STA entry for a WDS interface after receiving a beacon Johannes Berg
2011-05-31 19:46 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-05-31 20:05 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-31 19:32 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-31 19:39 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-05-31 20:06 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-31 20:22 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-06-01 4:17 ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-01 10:53 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-06-01 11:02 ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-01 11:18 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-06-01 11:30 ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-01 11:41 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-06-01 12:26 ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-01 12:48 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2011-06-06 18:24 ` John W. Linville
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