Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:50528 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758644Ab2EPRRt (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 13:17:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:07:33 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] AP mode channel setting simplification Message-ID: <20120516170733.GE3508@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20120516_191757_833409_BFE95636) References: <20120511083413.778117363@sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20120511083413.778117363@sipsolutions.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:34:13AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Ath6kl stores the channel, while mac80211 tries to > immediately apply it. The latter isn't great for > multi-channel. > > Change cfg80211 to store the channel, and give it > to the driver (mac80211, ath6kl, etc.) only in the > start_ap() function. > > This simplifies ath6kl a lot, and while it doesn't > make a difference to mac80211 today I think it'll > make it simpler to implement multi-channel. > > johannes I had some trouble with applying at least 1/3, so I skipped this batch as well. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.