Return-path: Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:41661 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752432AbXFTQ0A (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:26:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:25:58 +0200 From: Jiri Benc To: James Ketrenos Cc: Hong Liu , "John W. Linville" , Michael Wu , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch]mac80211: add support for iwlist channel Message-ID: <20070620182558.47871535@griffin.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <4679672D.4060503@linux.intel.com> References: <1182156425.15928.7.camel@napa-sdv1.sh.intel.com> <20070619105024.3c6c68e3@griffin.suse.cz> <1182305425.19178.12.camel@napa-sdv1.sh.intel.com> <20070620115559.301e10eb@griffin.suse.cz> <4679672D.4060503@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:43:09 -0700, James Ketrenos wrote: > [...] > /** > * enum ieee80211_channel_flags - Channel flag bit values > * @IEEE80211_CHAN_W_TUNE: Hardware can tune to this channel > * @IEEE80211_CHAN_W_ACTIVE: Channel can be used for active scanning > * @IEEE80211_CHAN_W_IBSS: Hardware can act as IBSS Master > * @IEEE80211_CHAN_W_RADAR: Radar spectrum enforcement applies > * @IEEE80211_CHAN_W_TX_ALLOWED: Tx is allowed Looks good, except... > [...] > * A channel without the TX_ALLOWED bit set *can not* be used > * for any type of transmission and can only be used for passive > * listening. This is useful for performing network audits. I don't find this useful. The stack isn't aware of anything like this. Do you plan to add a support for this flag? Also, cfg80211/nl80211 would need to be taught of it. Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs