Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:37243 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816Ab1EYEjW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 00:39:22 -0400 Received: by ywe9 with SMTP id 9so2710254ywe.19 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 21:39:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201105250624.32360.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> References: <1105241841310.6936@somehost> <4DDBE538.1090902@gnu.org> <201105250624.32360.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:39:21 +0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20110525_063928_612515_414A6AC4) Subject: Re: Initial automatic channel selection implementation From: Adrian Chadd To: Helmut Schaa Cc: Pavel Roskin , Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn , hostap@lists.shmoo.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 25 May 2011 12:24, Helmut Schaa wrote: >> It's possible that the list of autoselectable channels could be country >> specific. ?I would hate to add complexity to CRDA. ?Hopefully we could >> device a simple algorithm to find the autoselectable channels based on >> the CRDA data. > > Why not use a channel list as input to the algorithm (in whatever form). > Hence, it would work for all channels (if the user wishes to do so) but it > can be limited to a list of preferred channels (1,6,11). FreeBSD's net80211 seems to do something like this in hostap mode. Has anyone investigated it? I ask because I'm about to port channel statistics (survey, ext channel info) to net80211 in FreeBSD so it can be used in channel selection and survey feedback. Adrian