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From: Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 12:27:38 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations
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On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:05 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 6 May 2014 16:05, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 14:47 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> >> > Separately, I think due to the complexities involved in the driver
> >> > implementation we'll probably need a bitmap indicating which interface
> >> > types are supported (this is not something we do today, and this would
> >> > be broken in iwlwifi for sure.)
> >>
> >> Care to elaborate?
> >
> > It's a separate issue really - but sure: the iwlwifi firmware API will
> > likely not allow doing such trickery in the IBSS case, so we should have
> > a bitmap of supported interface types (e.g. BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
> > | ...) for the channel switch operation.
> 
> Ah, I get it now. Thanks.

I guess this should be done when the actual support for AP, STATION and
so on is added? For example, add the station flag with the "mac80211:
use chanctx reservation for STA CSA" patch and so on...

--
Luca.