Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com ([209.85.161.52]:57682 "EHLO mail-fx0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191Ab1GUSZC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:25:02 -0400 Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so3909333fxd.11 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:25:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1311266334.3059.11.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> References: <20110720165403.52B629D401C@zog.reactivated.net> <87hb6gu8k5.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <1311266334.3059.11.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:25:01 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20110721_202507_947866_C2ECCD86) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] libertas: reimplement mesh channel selection From: Daniel Drake To: Dan Williams Cc: Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21 July 2011 17:38, Dan Williams wrote: > Mesh on OLPC/usb8388 was a pre-802.11s mesh protocol specific to OLPC > implementations. ?It's unlikely it would map directly to the standard > mesh layer in mac80211/nl80211, plus it's all fullmac handled by the > firmware. ?So unless we want to look into creating one-off commands for > the OLPC mesh bits for nl80211, we probably just want to keep the wext > bits for this until we remove wext completely in the next few years. I've got it working creating a 2nd interface off the same wiphy, it seems to be working and avoids wext. It was simpler than I expected. I'll submit it later and we'll see if people like it. Thanks, Daniel