[RFC] mesh: Disable OBSS scan for mesh

Masashi Honma masashi.honma at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 14:52:05 PST 2016


On 2016年11月29日 22:41, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> While IEEE Std 802.11s-2011 may not have addressed this area (nor IEEE
> Std 802.11-2012 or the upcoming -2016 version), I'm not sure this is
> really the correct thing to do.. The DO STA concept sounds something
> similar to what a mesh BSS should likely have anyway.. Or alternatively,
> every single mesh STA would be required to do similar operations.
>
> As far as OBSS scan is concerned, it sounds fine to skip this for the
> case when joining an already operating mesh BSS. However, when starting
> up a new mesh BSS, I don't see why a mesh STA would have more freedom in
> skipping 20/40 MHz co-ex requirements when compared to a STA that is
> starting an IBSS or an AP starting an infrastructure BSS.

Thank you for comment. I see. I will drop this patch.

Masashi Honma.




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