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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] cfg80211: mac80211: 802.11p OCB mode support
From: Rostislav Lisovy <lisovy@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>, s.sander@nordsys.de,
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	Emmanuel Thierry <emmanuel.thierry@yogoko.fr>,
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	Rostislav Lisovy <rostislav.lisovy@fel.cvut.cz>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:58:46 +0100
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On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 10:25 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 10:33 +0100, Rostislav Lisovy wrote:
> > The IEEE 802.11p amendment (already part of IEEE 802.11-2012)
> > specifies usage of 5 and 10 MHz wide channels in 5.9GHz band for
> > vehicular environment. All the 802.11p compliant devices should
> > be set to the newly added operation mode -- OCB (Outside the
> > Context of a BSS). No authentication/association is necessary to
> > communicate. The only parameter to be configured is the channel
> > (central frequency and bandwidth) to communicate on. The channel
> > has to be known a priori. It is set during the 'ocb join'
> > operation (sent via netlink message from user-space).
> > 
> > This patchset adds the OCB mode, OCB join and leave handling
> > (nl80211, cfg80211, mac80211), 802.11p EDCA parameters
> > modification, RX and TX path (for unicast/broadcast messages).
> 
> Applied, thanks for all the changes.

Johannes, thank you for your help.

What do you think should be the next step? Until the new nl80211.h is
not in the 'iw' I will send some patches to the Atheros mailinglist
(adding OCB mode handling). Thereafter I will send patches for the 'iw'?

Best regards;
Rostislav