Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211/cfg80211: Add BSS configuration options for AP
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
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On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:27 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> > Yeah, that was a sticky point... But if you want per-BSS information yo=
u
> > really have to because right now it's per-hw.
>=20
> Well, I don't actually need it per-BSS for hardware that I'm most likely
> to work with ;-), but yeah, this is a per-BSS parameter, so in that
> sense your patch is doing the correct thing.

Yeah, ok, I guess I don't really care, do whichever way you want. It'd
be a bit strange to set it with cfg80211 per BSS and have it show up on
different BSSes, but that's about it, and a little strangeness hasn't
hurt anyone ;)

> > Ok, they can't be per VLAN then, true, but then I think we should limit
> > it to _AP just so nobody tries setting them without effect on other
> > devices or overrides, for _STA, what the AP said. For mesh I don't know
> > (adding Luis) and for IBSS I'm not sure either. I suspect you could use
> > it for IBSS too?
>=20
> I think I'll just make it _AP only for now and if someone ever really
> needs it for something else, they can enable it later.. It is possible
> that new attributes that would be more reasonable for other modes will
> be added in the future for _SET_BSS.

Sure, sounds fine.

johannes

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