#5481 NORM Update.: [firmware] channel setting is weird.

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#5481: [firmware] channel setting is weird.
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  Reporter:  dwmw2     |       Owner:  ashish  
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:          
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0         |    Blocking:          
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Comment(by dwmw2):

 I believe I found that disabling the mesh is not sufficient for new
 firmware; I also have to set the channel number in the _disable_ request
 in order for the subsequent channel change to succeed:
 http://git.infradead.org/?p=libertas-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=aff4fa54#patch1

 Please can we make it so that setting the channel always succeeds (in
 normal circumstances). If you try to set up mesh on a _different_ channel
 to the one it's already on, it leaves an existing Infra or Ad-Hoc network
 first. And if you change channel to join an Infra network while the mesh
 is running, the mesh changes channel to follow.

 We can probably do without the channel argument to the MESH_CONFIG
 command. It's less confusing if we just have the 802_11_RF_CHANNEL command
 to deal with.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5481#comment:15>
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