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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: do not check for carrier during
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
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On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 02:30 -0800, Avinash Patil wrote:
> Oops..
> 
> Are you talking about this?
> >>So, at least we should move if (netif_carrier_ok(dev)) check to mac80211 otherwise we might change channel of the running interface (via vif_use_channel).
> 
> I can move this check to ieee80211_start_radar_detection but I dont have any hardware to test these modifications.

That should be ok - however maybe you don't need those modifications at
all?

Frankly I'm not even sure how off-channel CAC stuff would work but
Janusz probably knows what he's talking about :)

johannes