Subject: Re: [RFC/T][PATCH 1/3] rc80211-pid: introduce rate behaviour
	learning algorithm
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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> I'm pretty sure we currently don't support switching modulations via
> WEXT. Any ideas on how this is going to be implemented with nl80211?

The way I see it, I'm going to rip out the whole *mode* stuff completely
and drill it down to
 (1) pure frequencies (no channels)
 (2) supported rates (which implies modulations)

> Should we be able to switch e.g. from 802.11g to 802.11b while the
> interface is up?

Probably not.

> Anyway, I think we don't need any special handling of this situation at
> the moment. The stack needs more nl80211/cfg80211 work anyway, so let's
> fix this once we've fixed the stack.

Right.

johannes

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