From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: "Rajkumar Manoharan" <Rajkumar.Manoharan@Atheros.com>,
"Björn Smedman" <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ath9k: Handle interface changes properly
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:23:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110114185317.GA12051@vmraj-lnx.users.atheros.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D30944A.30100@openwrt.org>
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:52:02PM +0530, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2011-01-14 7:13 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:19:38PM +0530, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >> On 2011-01-13 5:35 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> >> > Instead of setting opmde as AP for WDS, it is better to handle WDS
> >> > case in ath9k_hw.
> >> Why? Right now I don't even see any NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS handling in
> >> ath9k_hw, and I can't think of anything that should be handled
> >> differently in ath9k_hw compared to the AP opmode.
> > For WDS station, what should be the interface type? Forgive if I'm wrong.
> There is no WDS station opmode. 'WDS station' is a regular station
> interface with 4-addr mode enabled. It needs no special handling in ath9k.
still not convinced. Then what is the point mac80211 is informing about
WDS type to drivers. mac itself can pass it as AP type like what it
is doing for p2p GO.
--
Rajkumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-14 18:54 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
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 [this message]
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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