Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: allow adding new station to devices in mesh
 mode
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <1265331642-27773-1-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com>
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:39:08 +0100
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On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 23:00 -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> When trying to use the NEW_STATION command, it fails with -EINVAL,
> because there's no STA_SUPPORTED_RATES parameter. However, for mesh
> mode, this parameter should be NULL. Besides, it requires
> LISTEN_INTERVAL to be negative. We allow it to be ommited in the STA
> case too, in which it will be -1.
>=20
> ---
>=20
> Hello.
>=20
> I was trying to use iw station set in mesh mode and found out I wanted
> to call NEW_STATION.

Hmm. Can you explain why you want to do that? Mesh usually discovers its
peers, and you can add paths, but peers doesn't make a whole lot of
sense to me?

johannes

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