On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Johannes Berg wrote: > > - If the flag IW_FREQ_FIXED is set, should all activitity > > including scanning only be allowed on this frequency? (Actually > > a better would even be to work with channel/frequency sets. > > These sets would make a lot of sense for parallel scanning > > whith more than one device.) > > Yeah, but that's impossible to code on top of the current wext > structures I'd say.
I could be done via an iwpriv. Actually the Personal Telco people, would like to use WLAN devices in parallel to do WAR driving. At least I would like to support the fixed channel semantics. > > SIOCSIWFREQ and SIOCGIWFREQ appear to be good candidates to be > > included in the softmac. If I would have a rough idea, what the > > semantics should be, I would even volunteer to implement it. > > I was thinking of adding all the 'what is this ioctl supposed to do' > things we came up with to the softmac or netdev wiki. Would that be > good/useful, or should we just put it into that driver writers guide? Regarding the wireless extension ioctls, I think the best would be to add kerneldoc comments. Uli -- Ulrich Kunitz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
