Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:55163 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752309Ab2A3LCW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:02:22 -0500 Received: by iacb35 with SMTP id b35so5028675iac.19 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:02:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201201301035.19044.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> References: <1327581689-22090-1-git-send-email-victorg@ti.com> <201201261927.17754.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> <201201301035.19044.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> From: Julian Calaby Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:02:00 +1100 Message-ID: (sfid-20120130_120226_157238_9CA1BDAC) Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] hostap: add DFS master ability To: David Goodenough Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 21:35, David Goodenough wrote: > On Monday 30 Jan 2012, Goldenshtein, Victor wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:27 PM, David Goodenough >> >> wrote: >> > As I understand it hostapd is not involved in mesh (802.11s) networks, >> > so how does this integrate there? ?As I understand it 802.11s is entirely >> > done in the kernel. >> >> At this point we don't have any plans to extend DFS support to mesh >> networks. > That is fine, and obviously your choice. ?My point is simply that provision > so that someone else can add it would be sensible, and in particular to > assume that anything that could have mesh support would have a userland > component kind of locks it out as I understand 802.11s support at the > moment. I understand that using *secure* mesh requires a userspace component: http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO Arguably there's no reason why a separate userspace component couldn't handle DFS for mesh interfaces. A project for the future could be to split it out of hostapd so it can be re-used for interfaces that aren't managed by hostapd. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/