On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 17:38 +0000, Xu, Peng wrote: > This change is originated from a problem caused by OBSS scan and ACS > feature in the driver. When SAP is started, hostapd will do an OBSS > scan based on the channel setting in hostapd.conf, if the wlan driver > has the ACS capability, it may choose a different channel. Even it > notifies hostapd about the channel selection, the OBSS scan result > may become invalid if a different channel is selected and SAP may end > up operating in not desired mode. > This change will allow the wlan driver do the ACS and decide a > channel, once hostapd is notified, it can then do OBSS scan using that > channel. ACS operation is done during SAP starting up, beacon is sent > after channel is selected by driver.
All of this may be true, but I was asking why this has to be part of START_AP, and that's not answering that question. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
