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Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg/nl/mac80211: use per-band basic rates bitmap in IBSS
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:47:36 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 21:45 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:

> > As far as I understand it, the basic rates that are passed into the
> > kernel are intended to be used when the kernel creates a new IBSS. This
> > always happens on the channel that is also passed in, so it's always
> > bound to a given channel (band).
> 
> I think basic rates are also used in case of merging, right? In this case we
> could switch to another channel (and band).

No, as I understand it we should in that case use the IBSS's existing
basic rates, not our own.

johannes