Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:55327 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753266Ab1ISNS1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:18:27 -0400 Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so3890519fxe.19 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:18:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexander Simon To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] nl80211: Parse channel type attribute in an ibss join request Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:18:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4703394.vfFCDJXmvM@alex-1> (sfid-20110919_151830_639857_1D549677) In-Reply-To: <1316436761.5995.22.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <35635039ce7d4a79dc62b19d51ccf0d5d4838112.1316297595.git.an.alexsimon@googlemail.com> <1316436761.5995.22.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > With just this patch, you can set HT IBSS but mac80211 won't be able to > do it so there probably should be some form of feature check for this so > other (non-mac80211) drivers would be able to do this correctly -- I > don't expect all of them to implement HT IBSS. Just that i got this right: Mac80211 and other cfg80211-drivers should set some flag that HT IBSS is supported that we can check. So that if HT IBSS is requested but not available we can return an error?