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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:42:34 +0530
From: Srinivasan B <srinivasanb@posedge.com>
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To: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
CC: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 802.11h DFS support
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Hi Simon,
          Thanks for the clarification.

regards,
Srinivasan

On 12/13/2012 03:21 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> Hello Srinivasan,
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:32:35PM +0530, Srinivasan B wrote:
>> Hi,
>>          I was looking for the DFS support in
>> mac80211/cfg80211/nl80211/hostapd and observed that the latest
>> wireless-testing kernel&  hostapd.git does not include support for
>> 802.11h.
> that's correct.
>>          I also referred few patches submitted by Victor Goldenshtein
>> which had support for entire DFS operation basing wireless-testing
>> kernel. As per my understanding these patches are presently getting
>> modified to support new channel-context modifications.
>>
>>          Could someone confirm if I am right at my understanding.
> Yup. Actually I picked up Victors patchset and doing the channel context
> rework right now, and plan to send a revised patchset for nl80211/mac80211
> soon.
>
> "Entire" DFS operation is not entirely correct. There will still be quite
> a few bits missing:
>
>   * driver support - some drivers like ath9k have something prepared, but
>     it still needs to be integrated
>   * ETSI/FCC support has to be verified for the different drivers
>   * testing, of course
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon