[PATCH v2 3/3] libertas: reimplement mesh channel selection

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Thu Jul 21 14:25:01 EDT 2011


On 21 July 2011 17:38, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> Mesh on OLPC/usb8388 was a pre-802.11s mesh protocol specific to OLPC
> implementations.  It's unlikely it would map directly to the standard
> mesh layer in mac80211/nl80211, plus it's all fullmac handled by the
> firmware.  So unless we want to look into creating one-off commands for
> the OLPC mesh bits for nl80211, we probably just want to keep the wext
> bits for this until we remove wext completely in the next few years.

I've got it working creating a 2nd interface off the same wiphy, it
seems to be working and avoids wext. It was simpler than I expected.
I'll submit it later and we'll see if people like it.

Thanks,
Daniel



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