Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:36310 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752100Ab2HTLdC (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:33:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1345462378.4459.17.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120820_133306_238916_52280F9A) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add supported rates change notification in IBSS From: Johannes Berg To: Antonio Quartulli Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:32:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1344788695-1458-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> References: <1344788695-1458-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:24 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > In IBSS it is possible that the supported rates set for a station changes over > time (e.g. it gets first initialised as an empty set because of no available > information about rates and updated later). In this case the driver has to be > notified about the change in order to update its internal table accordingly (if > needed). > > This behaviour is needed by all those drivers that handle rc internally but > leave stations management to mac80211 Applied ... with a bunch of fixes johannes