Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.152]:38422 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754182Ab3KYP7G (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:59:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1385395140.4443.28.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20131125_165911_515548_FEE5D6B7) Subject: Re: [RFC 3/5] cfg80211: add regulatory quiescing support From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com, j@w1.fi, sunitb@qca.qualcomm.com, rsunki@qca.qualcomm.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:59:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20131114151809.GB29954@garbanzo.do-not-panic.com> (sfid-20131114_160753_012217_3FEDD59D) References: <1384366379-25301-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1384366379-25301-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1384377738.28806.15.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <20131114141105.GB19070@garbanzo.do-not-panic.com> <1384440286.13941.27.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <20131114151809.GB29954@garbanzo.do-not-panic.com> (sfid-20131114_160753_012217_3FEDD59D) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 07:18 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Think of the other way around, such as plugging in a stupid USB NIC just > > to see if it works - and suddenly finding your 5 GHz connection broken > > because that USB NIC said it really needed some stupid country with 2.4 > > only. I'm not convinced. > > Actually your example is a good one that I'd use to make my case, But what's your case? Why trust a just-plugged-in USB NIC more than an already-present PCIe NIC? > but I > can also see this being like a sledge hammer. What if we only quiesce on > wdevs of types: > > o NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC > o NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT > o NL80211_IFTYPE_AP > o NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO At least we should then also have that patch that QCA has somewhere about reporting to userspace that AP was stopped :P johannes