Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:18 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> > No, that's not true, you could well want to create your network on a
> > channel that isn't used that much or whatever.
>=20
> Okay that's is an argument. But then I would implement it more closer
> to the the handling of the assoc() call.
>=20
>  * @channel: The channel to use or %NULL if not specified
>  * (auto-select based on scan results)
>  * @channel_auto: Auto-select channel based on scan results,
>  * only use the specified channel for creating a new IBSS.

Actually, I'm arguing in another email that the channel_auto should be
removed in assoc... And IMHO fixed is much clearer for what we (well you
mostly actually!) want.

johannes

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