Return-path: Received: from dedo.coelho.fi ([88.198.205.34]:42405 "EHLO dedo.coelho.fi" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755607AbaEGLYw (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 07:24:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1399460994.10517.13.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> References: <1397050174-26121-14-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> <1398849681-3606-1-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> <1399372915.4218.17.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <1399385141.4218.37.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <1399454858.6800.1.camel@dubbel> <1399460994.10517.13.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 From: Luca Coelho Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 14:24:36 +0300 To: Johannes Berg CC: Michal Kazior , linux-wireless , Simon Wunderlich Message-ID: (sfid-20140507_132455_765211_0208266D) Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On May 7, 2014 2:09:54 PM EEST, Johannes Berg wrote: >On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 12:27 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote: > >> > > 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... > >I don't know if we really want separate flags, rather than maybe a new >field with an interface types supported bitmap? Yes, that's what I had in mind too (as we discussed offline). I meant STA, AP etc. flags in this new bitmask, not in the existing HW_CONF stuff. -- Luca.