Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] cfg80211: mac80211: 802.11p OCB mode support

From: Rostislav Lisovy
Date: Tue Nov 04 2014 - 07:58:55 EST


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

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/