Re: [PATCH 1/4] cfg80211: Add attributes describing prohibited channel bandwidth

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Apr 08 2014 - 05:55:01 EST


On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:31 +0200, Rostislav Lisovy wrote:
> Since there are frequency bands (e.g. 5.9GHz) allowing channels
> with only 10 or 5 MHz bandwidth, this patch adds attributes that
> allow keeping track about this information.
>
> When channel attributes are reported to user-space, make sure to
> not break old tools, i.e. if the 'split wiphy dump' is enabled,
> report the extra attributes (if present) describing the bandwidth
> restrictions. If the 'split wiphy dump' is not enabled,
> completely omit those channels that have flags set to either
> IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_10MHZ or IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_20MHZ.

I think you should probably squash patches 1 and 2, since otherwise you
could use the new channels?

Anyway, the patches don't seem to apply on mac80211-next, please rebase.

johannes

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