Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog116.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.240]:42190 "EHLO na3sys009aog116.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048Ab2BOQpr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:45:47 -0500 Received: by mail-lpp01m010-f44.google.com with SMTP id l5so1190178lah.3 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:45:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1327581484-22047-1-git-send-email-victorg@ti.com> <1327581484-22047-4-git-send-email-victorg@ti.com> <4F277F85.1090901@sipsolutions.net> <1328562090.3466.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:45:37 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120215_174615_390932_B0B847E6) Subject: Re: [RFC 3/9] nl80211/cfg80211: add ability to enable TX on op-channel From: "Goldenshtein, Victor" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kgiori@qca.qualcomm.com, zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com, adrian.chadd@gmail.com, j@w1.fi, coelho@ti.com, assaf@ti.com, yoni.divinsky@ti.com, igalc@ti.com, adrian@freebsd.org, nbd@nbd.name Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Goldenshtein, Victor wrote: >> Zefir Kurtisi and myself thought to rename the start_radar detection + >> en_tx functions to something like >> dfs_start_cac() and dfs_resume_cac(), these two will set/reset >> WIPHY_FLAG_DFS_CAC_IN_PROGRESS flag, which should add some additional >> protection. >> Are you OK with this ? > > I'd be more comfortable with a timer for the CAC as well. > > ?Luis Not sure I"m understand what you're saying here, the CAC timer handled in the hostap, kernel doesn't know anything about it. The WIPHY_FLAG_DFS_CAC_IN_PROGRESS exactly says that DFS master (hostapd) performs a channel availability check, which also indicates that the CAC timer is running (if this what you mean). -- Thanks, Victor.