Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] cfg80211: mac80211: 802.11p OCB mode support | From | Rostislav Lisovy <> | Date | Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:58:46 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 10:25 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 10:33 +0100, Rostislav Lisovy wrote: > > The IEEE 802.11p amendment (already part of IEEE 802.11-2012) > > specifies usage of 5 and 10 MHz wide channels in 5.9GHz band for > > vehicular environment. All the 802.11p compliant devices should > > be set to the newly added operation mode -- OCB (Outside the > > Context of a BSS). No authentication/association is necessary to > > communicate. The only parameter to be configured is the channel > > (central frequency and bandwidth) to communicate on. The channel > > has to be known a priori. It is set during the 'ocb join' > > operation (sent via netlink message from user-space). > > > > This patchset adds the OCB mode, OCB join and leave handling > > (nl80211, cfg80211, mac80211), 802.11p EDCA parameters > > modification, RX and TX path (for unicast/broadcast messages). > > Applied, thanks for all the changes.
Johannes, thank you for your help.
What do you think should be the next step? Until the new nl80211.h is not in the 'iw' I will send some patches to the Atheros mailinglist (adding OCB mode handling). Thereafter I will send patches for the 'iw'?
Best regards; Rostislav
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