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From: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com>
To: "Björn Smedman" <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ath9k: Handle interface changes properly
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:26:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19758.23490.289502.491562@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimK2AkRYnZk70TNt5YWEzNPCoPHpT=pu1B6JZPN@mail.gmail.com>

Björn Smedman wrote:
> Thank you Sujith for the clarification. When you lay out the cases it
> makes more sense. But there are still border cases, like e.g. adding
> first a STA and then an AP interface. If I read main.c correctly the
> opmode will then be STA and the AP vif will be broken, right?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to keep counts of number of vifs by type and
> e.g. activate SWBA if (adhocvifs > 0 || apvifs > 0) and similar? Then
> it wouldn't mater in which order vifs are added, removed and changed.

Yep, individual interface counters have to be maintained, since bringing
down one beaconing interface shouldn't disable SWBA altogether.
Also, we should allow only one IBSS interface, and deny multi-interfaces when
it is present.

Sujith

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-13  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-12 14:30 [RFC] ath9k: Handle interface changes properly Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-12 17:06 ` Björn Smedman
2011-01-12 17:22   ` Sujith
2011-01-12 19:00     ` Björn Smedman
2011-01-13  1:56       ` Sujith [this message]
2011-01-13  5:16       ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-13  5:10     ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-12 19:51   ` Felix Fietkau
2011-01-12 20:14     ` Ben Greear
2011-01-13  5:18     ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-13 14:23       ` Felix Fietkau
2011-01-13 16:35         ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-13 16:49           ` Felix Fietkau
2011-01-14 18:13             ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-14 18:22               ` Felix Fietkau
2011-01-14 18:53                 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-14 19:06                   ` Felix Fietkau
2011-01-14 19:24                     ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-01-14 19:29                       ` Ben Greear
2011-01-14 19:34                         ` Felix Fietkau
2011-01-14 23:02                     ` Björn Smedman
2011-01-13  5:08   ` Rajkumar Manoharan

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