Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: add DFS related channel flags
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bernhard Schmidt <bernhard.schmidt@saxnet.de>
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:13 +0100
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On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 12:59 +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

> > I'm not sure about this -- shouldn't that be global information? If
> > one device in the system records a radar on the channel, it surely
> > applies to other devices as well, even if they are hot-plugged after
> > the radar was found?
> 
> True, I've based this on our IRC discussions, the consensus there was to 
> do it per-wiphy only at first.

I thought what we had discussed there (but I missed at least one
meeting) was that the *detector* state, for software-based detection,
should be per wiphy. I never heard anywhere that the result of that
should be local too.

johannes