From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 06/15] mac80211: add support for HW periodic scan
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:55:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03639d1a6cc12b36b036145a8c31da33@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288987177.25600.15.camel@powerslave>
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:59:37 +0200, Luciano Coelho
<luciano.coelho@nokia.com> wrote:
> I think the idea of using background is good. Something like bg_scan or
> something. The original idea was to call it background scan, but since
> wl1271 doesn't support this while connected, I thought calling it
> periodic scan would be slightly clearer about that. Background scan
> sounds like you do it while connected (to me at least).
Come to think of it though, we also call what we do when connected
and trigger a scan manually a "background scan", so that's probably
not a good name here.
Not sure ... don't really have a good idea right now.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-01 11:52 [RFC 00/15] Implementation of periodic scan Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 01/15] nl80211: add periodic scan commands Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:42 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 14:14 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 02/15] cfg80211: add periodic scan request structure Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 03/15] nl80211: alloc and free the periodic_req data Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:43 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 14:14 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 04/15] cfg80211: add periodic scan start and stop ops Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 05/15] nl80211: call periodic_start and periodic_stop Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:44 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 19:44 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-05 19:50 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 06/15] mac80211: add support for HW periodic scan Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:45 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 19:59 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-05 19:55 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-11-11 15:33 ` Gery Kahn
2010-11-11 15:59 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-11 17:50 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 07/15] cfg80211: add periodic scan results handler Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:47 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 20:00 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 08/15] nl80211: report periodic scan results Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 09/15] cfg80211: add channel support to periodic scan Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 10/15] nl80211: add channel support to the " Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 11/15] mac80211: pass cfg80211 periodic scan request structure down to the driver Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 12/15] cfg80211: add ssid support to periodic scan Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 13/15] nl80211: add ssid filtering support to the " Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 14/15] cfg80211: add ie support for periodic scans Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:49 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 20:01 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-01 11:52 ` [RFC 15/15] mac80211: create and pass the ies for each band in " Luciano Coelho
2010-11-04 15:51 ` [RFC 00/15] Implementation of periodic scan Johannes Berg
2010-11-04 21:46 ` Luciano Coelho
2010-11-11 15:31 ` Gery Kahn
2010-11-11 15:57 ` Luciano Coelho
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